Fault, responsibility, and administrative law in late Babylonian legal texts

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

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Texts -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Analysis -- Chapter One. Introduction -- The Royal and Temple Administrations in the Late Babylonian Period -- Overview of the Argument -- Legal Terminology and Analogies -- Chapter Two. The ḫīṭu-Clause and Its Interpretation -- The ḫīṭu-Clause -- The Syntax of the Clause and the Translation of ḫīṭu -- Previous Scholarship -- Response to Prior Views -- Chapter Three. The ḫīṭu-Documents and the Duties behind Them -- Date, Place, and Archive -- Presence of a Promissory Oath -- Obligations and Duties -- Chapter Four. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Non-Judicial Contexts -- Direct Orders -- Promissory Oaths -- Assertory Oaths -- Guarantees -- Impersonal Statements -- Conclusions -- Chapter Five. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Judicial Contexts -- ḫīṭu-Clauses as Conditional Verdicts in the Administration of Justice: Bifurcation of Subject Matter Jurisdiction -- ḫīṭu-Clauses as Delegations of Responsibility in the Administration of the Court System: Ancient "Contempt-of-Court" Citations -- Conclusions -- Chapter Six. On History and Theory: Administrative Law and Bureaucracy in Ancient Times -- What Do We Mean by "Administrative Law"? -- The Babylonian and Achaemenid Historical Contexts -- Weber's Administrative Systems -- Weber on Ancient Agrarian Civilizations -- Eisenstadt's Historical Bureaucratic Empires -- Conclusions -- Chapter Seven. Quasi-Bureaucracy and Administrative Law in the Late Babylonian Period -- State of the Scholarship -- Quasi-Bureaucratic Empires and the Late Babylonian Evidence -- Conclusions -- Final Thoughts -- Part II: Texts -- Text Editions with Copies -- Two Texts with the ḫīṭu-Clause from the Time of Nebuchadnezzar II (nos. 1-2).

"Investigates the governmental administrative systems of the Late Babylonian period, drawing on S. N. Eisenstadt's model of historical bureaucratic empires to show that the governmental systems of this period developed an early form of administrative law"--