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Reflections on Neo-babylonian Law

Reflections on Neo-babylonian Law NIN 4 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 On the approach to archives, see the remarks of D. Charpin, “Esquisse d’une diplo- matique des documents mésopotamiens,” Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes 160 (2002) 487–511, esp. 503–509. The thematic approach is still valuable, of course, where it con- tributes to the exhaustive treatment of a given topic, as with M. Roth’s Babylonian Marriage Agreements, 7th–3rd Centuries B.C. (AOAT 222; Kevelaer: Butzon und Bercker, 1989). For more frequently recorded transactions, comprehensive treatment is hardly possible. 2 Die Urkunden des babylonischen Geschäftsmannes Iddin-Marduk (2 vols.; CM 3; Groningen: Styx, 1993); Das Egibi-Archiv, I: Die Felder und Gärten (2 vols.; CM 20A and B; Groningen: Styx, 2000). 3 Babylonische Archive Band 2. (ISLET; Dresden, 2003). REFLECTIONS ON NEO-BABYLONIAN LAW RAYMOND WESTBROOK Johns Hopkins University The early decades of research in cuneiform law saw a spate of editions of private legal documents by the pioneers of the fi eld: P. Koschaker, A. Ungnad (with the legal ethnologist J. Kohler), F. Peiser, and M. Schorr. In contrast to the publication of autograph copies of cuneiform, which tended to be by museum collection, period, or provenance, the editions were invariably thematic, being grouped by legal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NIN Brill

Reflections on Neo-babylonian Law

Westbrook, Raymond
NIN , Volume 4 (1): 133 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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NIN 4 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 On the approach to archives, see the remarks of D. Charpin, “Esquisse d’une diplo- matique des documents mésopotamiens,” Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes 160 (2002) 487–511, esp. 503–509. The thematic approach is still valuable, of course, where it con- tributes to the exhaustive treatment of a given topic, as with M. Roth’s Babylonian Marriage Agreements, 7th–3rd Centuries B.C. (AOAT 222; Kevelaer: Butzon und Bercker, 1989). For more frequently recorded transactions, comprehensive treatment is hardly possible. 2 Die Urkunden des babylonischen Geschäftsmannes Iddin-Marduk (2 vols.; CM 3; Groningen: Styx, 1993); Das Egibi-Archiv, I: Die Felder und Gärten (2 vols.; CM 20A and B; Groningen: Styx, 2000). 3 Babylonische Archive Band 2. (ISLET; Dresden, 2003). REFLECTIONS ON NEO-BABYLONIAN LAW RAYMOND WESTBROOK Johns Hopkins University The early decades of research in cuneiform law saw a spate of editions of private legal documents by the pioneers of the fi eld: P. Koschaker, A. Ungnad (with the legal ethnologist J. Kohler), F. Peiser, and M. Schorr. In contrast to the publication of autograph copies of cuneiform, which tended to be by museum collection, period, or provenance, the editions were invariably thematic, being grouped by legal

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