Law and (dis)order in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 59th rencontre assyriologique internationale held at Ghent, Belgium, 15-19 July 2013
Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of CONtENTS -- Chapter 1 -- Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature -- Chapter 2: Le vol à l'époque paléo- babylonienne : L'application de la loi à travers la jurisprudence -- Chapter 3: "Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie" or the Taboo (NÍG.GIG=ikkibu) of the Sacredness of Sleepas Order and Noise at Night ("tapage nocturne") as Disorder in Some Ancient Near Eastern Texts -- Chapter 4: Lorsque les généraux prêtent serment ... : Quelques remarques sur l'usage du serment deloyauté (depuis la documentation d'Ur III jusqu'àl'époque néo- assyrienne) -- Chapter 5: Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality -- Chapter 6: The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo- Assyrian Documents -- Chapter 7: Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte: A Source of Order or Disorder in the Legal System -- Chapter 8: What the "Man of One Mina" Wanted: Law and Commerce in the Ur III Period -- Chapter 9: How Ancient Near Eastern Societies Regulated Life in the Community: Crucial Clues from Archaeology -- Chapter 10: A Variationist Approach to Orthographic and Phonological Peculiarities of the Language in the Laws of Hammurabi -- Chapter 11: "For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me Replace Him One Hundred- Fold": Fugitives/ Runaways in the Neo- Assyrian Empire -- Chapter 12: Perfections of Justice? Measure for Measure Aspirations in Biblical and Cuneiform Sources -- Chapter 13: Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination -- Chapter 14: Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination -- (Chapter 15: Mis) Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn't Have Been Competent, They Didn't Go to Yale -- Chapter 16: Rétablir l'ordre par la mort dans les textes législatifs du début du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. -- Chapter 17: To Be Guilty at Nuzi.