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Law, politics and society in the ancient Mediterranean world / edited by Baruch Halpern and Deborah W. Hobson.

Contributor(s): Halpern, Baruch | Hobson, Deborah W. (Deborah Whitney)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. Description: 291 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 1850753504Subject(s): Law, Ancient | Mediterranean Region -- Civilization | Mediterranean Region -- Politics and government | Rome (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.CDDC classification: 930.091822 LOC classification: DE71 | .L385 1993NLM classification: DE71
Contents:
Social problems and policies in the Ancient Near East / Reuven Yaron -- Some Late Bronze Age legal tablets from the British Museum / Maynard P. Maidman -- The role of law in early Israelite society / Robert P. Wilson -- Agnatic kinship in Athenian law and Athenian family practice / Virginia J. Hunter -- Some implications of Aristotle's conception of authority / Marguerite Deslauriers -- Social status and social behaviour as criteria in judicial proceedings in the late republic / Paul R. Swarney -- Instrumenta imperii: law and imperialism in Republican Rome / Jonathan Edmondson -- The impact of law on village life in Roman Egypt / Deborah W. Hobson -- Slavery and society in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- Palestine and Justinian's legislation on non-Christian religions / Patrick T.R. Gray -- Truth or [pesat]? Issues in law and exegesis / Martin I. Lockshin.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Social problems and policies in the Ancient Near East / Reuven Yaron -- Some Late Bronze Age legal tablets from the British Museum / Maynard P. Maidman -- The role of law in early Israelite society / Robert P. Wilson -- Agnatic kinship in Athenian law and Athenian family practice / Virginia J. Hunter -- Some implications of Aristotle's conception of authority / Marguerite Deslauriers -- Social status and social behaviour as criteria in judicial proceedings in the late republic / Paul R. Swarney -- Instrumenta imperii: law and imperialism in Republican Rome / Jonathan Edmondson -- The impact of law on village life in Roman Egypt / Deborah W. Hobson -- Slavery and society in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- Palestine and Justinian's legislation on non-Christian religions / Patrick T.R. Gray -- Truth or [pesat]? Issues in law and exegesis / Martin I. Lockshin.