Ebook: Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
Author: Ilan Peled
- Tags: law legal history history near east Bible Mesopotamia gender women
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: London and New York
- Language: English
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This volume examines how gender relations were regulated in ancient Near Eastern and biblical law. The textual corpus examined includes the various pertinent law collections, royal decrees and instructions from Mesopotamia and Hatti, and the three biblical legal collections.
Peled explores issues beginning with the wide societal perspective of gender equality and inequality, continues to the institutional perspective of economy, palace and temple, the family, and lastly, sex crimes. All the texts mentioned or referred to in the book are given in an appendix, both in the original languages and in English translation, allowing scholars to access the primary sources for themselves.
"Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible" offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on Near Eastern society and culture, and gender in the ancient world more broadly.
Peled explores issues beginning with the wide societal perspective of gender equality and inequality, continues to the institutional perspective of economy, palace and temple, the family, and lastly, sex crimes. All the texts mentioned or referred to in the book are given in an appendix, both in the original languages and in English translation, allowing scholars to access the primary sources for themselves.
"Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible" offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on Near Eastern society and culture, and gender in the ancient world more broadly.
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