Umfang:
XIV, 182 S.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780226101583
,
0226101584
Anmerkung:
Translated from the French. - Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction : the historian's task and sources -- Reading and writing in Mesopotamia : the business of specialists? -- Outline for a diplomatics of Mesopotamian documents -- Old Babylonian law : gesture, speech, and writing -- The transfer of property deeds and the constitution of family archives -- The status of the Code of Hammurabi -- The "restoration" edicts of the Babylonian kings and their application -- Hammurabi and international law -- Controlling cross-border traffic -- A civilization with two faces.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
,
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
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Theologie/Religionswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
Babylonien
;
Schrift
;
Sprache
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