A history of ancient Near Eastern law / / edited by Raymond Westbrook ; editorial board, Gary Beckman ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, v. 72 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
• TeilnehmendeR: Westbrook, Raymond.; Beckman, Gary M.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 72. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1229 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- INTRODUCTION: THE CHARACTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LAW / Raymond Westbrook -- EGYPT: OLD KINGDOM AND FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow -- MESOPOTAMIA: EARLY DYNASTIC AND SARGONIC PERIODS / Claus Wilcke -- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-SUMERIAN PERIOD (UR III) / Bertrand Lafont and Raymond Westbrook -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: EBLA / Amalia Catagnoti -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM / Jerrold Cooper -- EGYPT: MIDDLE KINGDOM AND SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow -- EGYPT: NEW KINGDOM / Richard Jasnow -- MESOPOTAMIA: OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Raymond Westbrook -- MESOPOTAMIA: OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Klaas R. Veenhof -- MESOPOTAMIA: MIDDLE BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Kathryn Slanski -- MESOPOTAMIA: MIDDLE ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Sophie Lafont -- MESOPOTAMIA: NUZI / Carlo Zaccagnini -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: THE HITTITE KINGDOM / Richard Haase -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: EMAR AND VICINITY / Raymond Westbrook -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: ALALAKH / Ignacio Márquez Rowe -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: UGARIT / Ignacio Márquez Rowe -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: CANAAN / Ignacio Márquez Rowe -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE / Jesper Eidem -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: LATE BRONZE AGE / Gary Beckman -- Preliminary material / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- EGYPT: THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow -- EGYPT: DEMOTIC LAW / Joseph G. Manning -- EGYPT: ELEPHANTINE / Bezalel Porten -- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Karen Radner -- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Joachim Oelsner , Bruce Wells and Cornelia Wunsch -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: ISRAEL / Tikva Frymer-Kenski -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM / Simo Parpola -- INDICES / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- INDEX OF ANCIENT TERMS / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- INDEX OF TEXTS CITED / RAYMOND WESTBROOK.