A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

Download or read book A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law written by Raymond Westbrook and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This SBL Press reprint of Brill's two-volume comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, is a collaborative work of twenty-two scholars that 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. 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.