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Neo-Babylonian trial records

Shalom E. Holtz
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Series Editor Foreword (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Conventions and Abbreviations (page xi)
  • Remarks on the Transcriptions and Translations (page xiv)
  • Chronology of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Kings (605-424 BCE) (page xvi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
    • General Historical Context (page 3)
    • The Trial Records and Neo-Babylonian Archival Texts (page 4)
    • Imagining the Courtroom Drama (page 5)
    • The Adjudicatory System (page 7)
    • On the Organization of This Book (page 9)
  • Chapter 1: Preliminaries to Trials (page 13)
    • 1. A Confession (page 13)
    • 2. Apprehension for Cultic Crimes (page 17)
    • 3. Reports about Theft in High Places (page 20)
    • 4. An Accusation of Burglary (page 24)
    • 5. An Interrogation about Sheep (page 27)
    • 6. An Interrogation about Missing Gold (page 31)
    • 7. Testimony about a Stolen Ox (page 34)
    • 8. Examination of a Tablet as Evidence (page 36)
    • 9. A Conditional Verdict (page 38)
    • 10. Another Conditional Verdict (page 41)
    • 11. Prelude to a Trial for Manslaughter (page 43)
    • 12. Requirement to Present Witnesses (page 45)
    • 13. An Oath to Argue a Case (page 48)
    • 14. A Counterclaim Regarding Misappropriated Sheep (page 52)
    • 15. A Summons to Babylon (page 55)
    • 16. Testimony and a Summons (page 57)
    • 17. A Summons to the Esagil at Babylon (page 60)
    • 18. A Settled Case (page 62)
  • Chapter 2: Completed Trials (page 67)
    • 19. A Dispute over the Sale of a Slave (page 67)
    • 20. A Slave's Attempt at Self-Liberation (page 70)
    • 21. A Misappropriated Temple Slave (page 74)
    • 22. A Boatman's Fraud (page 80)
    • 23. Inheritance (page 84)
    • 24. Undivided Inheritance (page 87)
    • 25. A Property Dispute (page 94)
    • 26. A Property Dispute with the Eanna Temple (page 102)
    • 27. A Dispute over a House (page 107)
    • 28. Dispute over a Theft (page 110)
    • 29. An Attempted Fraud (page 114)
    • 30. A Violent Theft (page 118)
    • 31. The Case of a Branded Temple Servant (page 122)
    • 32. Settling a Debt (page 125)
    • 33. A Case from the Ebabbar at Sippar (page 129)
    • 34. A Case regarding Prebends (page 132)
    • 35. A Widow and Her Husband's Creditors (page 137)
    • 36. Settling Dowry Obligations (page 141)
  • Chapter 3: Four Trial Dossiers (page 147)
    • The Infamous Gimillu (Documents 37-41) (page 147)
    • The Case of Anu-šarra-uṣur's Branded Sheep (Documents 42-43) (page 172)
    • The Case of Lā-tubāšinni and Her Children (Documents 44-48) (page 182)
    • An Unauthorized Marriage (Documents 49-50) (page 198)
  • Normalized Texts (page 205)
  • Bibliography (page 241)
  • Indexes (page 249)
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Published: c2014
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781589839434 (paper)
  • 9781589839458 (ebook)
  • 9781589839441 (hardcover)
Series
  • Writings from the Ancient World
Subject
  • Biblical Literature
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