Studies in the Aramaic legal papyri from Elephantine /
Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs' work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of the 5th century B.C...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
مؤلفون آخرون:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Boston :
Brill,
2002.
سلاسل:
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
66.
Handbook of Oriental Studies: Ancient Near East Online, ISBN: 9789004307988.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين: Login to view Source
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: KL190 .M84 2002
| الملخص: | Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs' work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of the 5th century B.C.E. These documents are of exceptional importance for the study of ancient Near Eastern law, and Muffs has investigated their formative background through extensive references to cuneiform law, by a method he calls "the Assyriological approach". Virtually every aspect of law-sale of land, marriage and family law, loans and credit, the taking of oaths, and the granting of bequests is studied in great depth and with unusual clarity. Muffs' work has enjoyed renewed interest in the light of more recent discoveries of Aramaic legal documents from later periods, as in the Judean Desert. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xliv, 311 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789004294233 |
| وصول: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |