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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia: Confinement and Control Until the First Fall of Babylon - Couverture rigide

Reid, J. Nicholas

 
9780192849618: Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia: Confinement and Control Until the First Fall of Babylon
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0192849611 ISBN 13 : 9780192849618
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment for coercion became adaptable to a variety of circumstances and goals, which shaped the contexts and practices of imprisonment. With time, religious ideology was attached to imprisonment. In one literary text, a prisoner was refined like silver and given new birth in the prison. The misery of imprisonment gave rise to lament through which a criminal could be ritually purified and restored to a right relationship with their personal god. Beyond this literary perspective, this work reconstructs how imprisonment and religious ideology intersected with the judicial process and explores the evidence related to the reasons behind imprisonment, the treatment of prisoners, and the evidence related to the lengths of their stays.

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À propos de l'auteur

J. Nicholas Reid is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Hybrid MDiv Program at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando. He has co-authored a forthcoming volume for Oxford University press, Letters from Old Babylonian Kish (2022), and has published several academic articles.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0192849611
ISBN 13 
9780192849618
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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