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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
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Introduction: The Historian's Task and Sources
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Chapter 1 Reading and Writing in Mesopotamia: The Business of Specialists? -
Chapter 2 Outline for a Diplomatics of Mesopotamian Documents -
Chapter 3 Old Babylonian Law: Gesture, Speech, and Writing -
Chapter 4 The Transfer of Property Deeds and the Constitution of Family Archives -
Chapter 5 The Status of the Code of Hammurabi -
Chapter 6 The “Restoration” Edicts of the Babylonian Kings and Their Application -
Chapter 7 Hammurabi and International Law -
Chapter 8 Controlling Cross-Border Traffic - Conclusion: A Civilization with Two Faces
- Notes
- Index
Title Pages
Title Pages
- Source:
- Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
-
Introduction: The Historian's Task and Sources
-
Chapter 1 Reading and Writing in Mesopotamia: The Business of Specialists? -
Chapter 2 Outline for a Diplomatics of Mesopotamian Documents -
Chapter 3 Old Babylonian Law: Gesture, Speech, and Writing -
Chapter 4 The Transfer of Property Deeds and the Constitution of Family Archives -
Chapter 5 The Status of the Code of Hammurabi -
Chapter 6 The “Restoration” Edicts of the Babylonian Kings and Their Application -
Chapter 7 Hammurabi and International Law -
Chapter 8 Controlling Cross-Border Traffic - Conclusion: A Civilization with Two Faces
- Notes
- Index
