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Judicial Decisions in the Ancient Near East
This volume presents the first broadly inclusive collection, with accessible text and English translation, of documents related to judicial decisions in the ancient Near East, the oldest setting for such writing in the world. The texts in this volume belong to various genres, especially legal records and letters, and they span almost two thousand years. With such varied material, the work depends on the expertise of specialists in each setting, from the Sumerian of early Ur to the late Akkadian of Babylonia under the Persians. Each chapter includes introductions that place the legal documents in their historical and social context, texts, translations, and commentary. This volume brings the beginnings of law to students and scholars across disciplines.
Displays of Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant
This volume examines the power relationships between the rulers of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens of "cultural hegemony." It explores the impact of these foreign powers on all social classes and reconstructs the public presence of cultural control. The book serves to determine the impact of foreign control on the daily lives of those living in the ancient Levant and offers a means by which to attempt to discuss non-elites in the ancient Near East. It examines expressions of foreign ideology within public performance such as religious expressions and in public places, observable by all social classes, which assert control or dominance over local...
Divining the Woman of Endor
An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch of Endor” passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kibo...
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Collections, Codes, and Torah
Scholars of biblical law are already widely agreed that ancient Israel did not draft law-texts for legislative purposes. Little attention has yet been given to explaining how and when later Judaism did come to regard Torah as legislative. As a result, the current consensus (that Ezra introduced legislative uses of Torah) is based on assumptions which have been never tested. This study steps into that crucial gap, critiques and challenges the current consensus, and presents an alternative hypothesis. .
Una mirada jurídica a los cuentos de los hermanos Grimm
En este libro el lector encontrará nuevas formas de relacionar las leyes y la literatura y, con esto, nuevas maneras de estudiar la ley, con base en los valores y las ideas de justicia que son puestos a prueba en cada uno de los cuentos. La mirada aguda de cada autor ayuda a la reflexión actualizada sobre viejas estructuras de poder, derechos, obligaciones, prejuicios y narrativas que han per-meado el imaginario colectivo desde tiempos remotos. Así, la obra es un gran aporte a la enseñanza del derecho desde perspectivas críticas que, apoyadas en la literatura, propician un abordaje más eficaz de conceptos, narrativas y valores que el estudio técnico muchas veces deja pasar desapercibidos.
The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens of cuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research.
Trois millénaires de formulaires juridiques
This round-table conference addressed contractual models in the Semitic West, from the second millennium B.C.E. to the beginning of the Middle Ages. These juridical forms, from cuneiform Syria to the Talmud and Islamic papyri, though often standardized, retained a dynamic adaptability to both custom and specific needs. French text.
