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1 online resource |
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text file |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Contributors""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I""; ""1. The Sound of the Magic Flute in Legal and Religious Registers of the Ramesside Period: Some Common Features of Two �Ritualistic Languages�""; ""2. Law and Religion in Achaemenid Iran""; ""3. Law and Religion in Early Greece""; ""4. Gods, Kings, and Lawgivers""; ""5. Hated by the Gods and your Spouse: Legal Use of (omited) in Elephantine and its Ancient Near Eastern Context"" |
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""6. The Aramaic Law of Sale Considered from the Papyrological and Rabbinic Evidence""""7. Fines and Curses: Law and Religion among the Nabataeans and their Neighbours""; ""Part II""; ""8. Law and Religion in the Hebrew Bible""; ""9. The History of the Legal-Religious Hermeneutics of the Book of Deuteronomy from the Assyrian to the Hellenistic Period""; ""10. �The peg in the wall�: Cultic Centralization Revisited""; ""11. Is It Law or Religion? Legal Motivations in Deuteronomic and Neo-Babylonian Texts""; ""12. Job�s Compositional History One More Time: What Its Law Might Contribute"" |
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""13. �For the judgment is God�s� (Deut. 1: 17): Biblical and Communal Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls""""14. The Jurist as a Mujtahid��the Hermeneutical Concept of Abu l-Hasan 'Ali al-Mawardi (d. 449/1058)""; ""Index of References"" |
| Summary |
This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Approaching these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, it also looks at the notion of law and religion in this region as a whole, in both the geographical as well as the historical space. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Law, Ancient.
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Law, Ancient. |
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Law -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
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Law. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Religion and law -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
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Religion and law. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Law. |
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Print version: 9781306270724 |
| ISBN |
1306270723 (electronic book) |
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9781306270724 (electronic book) |
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9780191626258 (electronic book) |
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0191626252 (electronic book) |
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