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Introduction -- Sources -- Litigation -- Status and family -- Crimes and delicts -- Property and inheritance -- Contracts -- Conclusion

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Texts -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Analysis -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. The ḫīṭu-Clause and Its Interpretation -- Chapter Three. The ḫīṭu-Documents and the Duties behind Them -- Chapter Four. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Non-Judicial Contexts -- Chapter Five. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Judicial Contexts -- Chapter Six. On History and Theory: Administrative Law and Bureaucracy in Ancient Times -- Chapter Seven. Quasi-Bureaucracy and Administrative Law in the Late Babylonian Period -- Part II: Texts -- Text Editions with Copies -- Text Editions without Copies -- Abstracts of Texts in Forthcoming Publications -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Documents -- Akkadian Words -- Personal Names in Part II -- Geographic Names in Part II -- Divine Names in Part II -- Authors -- Subjects

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Introduction: The Idea of a Shared Tradition -- Part One: The Tradition in the Law Codes -- 1. Biblical and Cuneiform Law Codes -- 2. The Nature and Origins of the Twelve Tables -- 3. Cuneiform Law Codes and the Origins of Legislation -- 4. What Is the Covenant Code? -- 5. Codification and Canonization -- 6. Codex Hammurabi and the Ends of the Earth -- Part Two: The Tradition in Legal Practice -- 7. Social Justice in the Ancient Near East -- 8. Slave and Master in Ancient Near Eastern Law -- 9. Patronage in the Ancient Near East -- 10. Adultery in Ancient Near Eastern Law -- 11. Witchcraft and the Law in the Ancient Near East -- Part Three: The Tradition in Greco-Roman Law -- 12. The Trial Scene in the Iliad -- 13. Penelope's Dowry and Odysseus' Kingship -- 14. The Coherence of the Lex Aquilia -- 15. Restrictions on Alienation of Property in Early Roman Law -- 16. Vitae Necisque Potestas -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Front Matter 2 -- Contents 2 -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Introduction: Law as Method -- Part One: Cuneiform Sources -- 1. The Edict of Tudhaliya IV -- 2. Hard Times: CT 45 37 -- 3. The Liability of an Innocent Purchaser of Stolen Goods in Early Mesopotamian Law -- 4. The Old Babylonian Term napṭarum -- 5. The Phrase "His Heart Is Satisfied" in Ancient Near Eastern Legal Sources -- 6. The Case of the Elusive Debtors: CT 4 6a and CT 6 34b -- 7. Social Justice and Creative Jurisprudence in Late Bronze Age Syria -- 8. A Death in the Family: Codex Eshnunna 17-18 Revisited -- 9. The Adoption Laws of Codex Hammurabi -- 10 The Female Slave -- 11 A Sumerian Freedman -- 12 The Quality of Freedom in Neo-Babylonian Manumissions -- 13 Judges in the Cuneiform Sources -- 14 Evidentiary Procedure in the Middle Assyrian Laws -- 15 Ziz2. da / kiššātum -- 16 The Enforcement of Morals in Mesopotamian Law -- 17 A Matter of Life and Death -- 18 International Law in the Amarna Age -- 19 Babylonian Diplomacy in the Amarna Letters -- Part Two: Biblical Sources -- 20 Biblical Law -- 21 The Laws of Biblical Israel -- 22 Lex Talionis and Exodus 21:22-25 -- 23 The Deposit Law of Exodus 22:6-12 -- 24 Who Led the Scapegoat in Leviticus 16:21? -- 25 The Prohibition on Restoration of Marriage in Deuteronomy 24:1-4 -- 26 Riddles in Deuteronomic Law -- 27 The Trial of Jeremiah -- 28 Legalistic "Glosses" in Biblical Narratives -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources