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Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East|Kenneth A. Kitchen

Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East : Part 1: The Texts - Part 2: Text, Notes and Chromograms - Part 3: Overall Historical Survey

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Overview

This work presents a far-reaching social profile of life in the Ancient Near East, based on its wealth of law-collections, treaties and covenants through three millennia. Volume 1 (The Texts) sets out a uniquely comprehensive corpus of over 100 such documents in 10 languages, mostly displayed in facing-page transliterations and English translations with individual bibliographies. Volume 2 (Text, Notes, and Chromograms) provides essential philological and background commentary to the texts, fully indexes their subject-matter, and concludes with a revolutionary and innovative series of full-colour diagrams of every text, vividly highlighting variations through the centuries. Finally, Volume 3 (Overall Historical Survey) outlines the flowing interplay of political history, changing social norms and varying documentary formats throughout the whole period. Taken together, this tryptich offers a striking and indispensable new overview of its multifaceted world for Ancient Near-Eastern and biblical studies.

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  • ISBN-13: 9783447067263
  • ISBN-10: 3447067268
  • Publisher: Harrassowitz
  • Publish Date: October 2012
  • Dimensions: 12 x 8.9 x 3.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.12 pounds
  • Page Count: 1641

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