Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Johns, C. H. W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440032327 ISBN 13 : 9781440032325

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Hook line : Discover the legal life of ancient Mesopotamia through translated contracts and letters that reveal daily transactions and governance.

This volume presents translated contracts and correspondence from Babylonian and Assyrian sources, offering a clear view of how law, commerce, and administration worked in the ancient world. It helps readers understand the careful wording, practical deals, and social networks that shaped early civilization, with emphasis on the quiet mechanics of everyday legality.

• See how agreements were written to ensure exactness and clear meanings
• Explore how letters convey direct, sometimes personal, communication across distances
• Learn how temples acted as financial centers, lenders, and traders
• Meet the officials, priests, and workers who ran cities and households

Ideal for readers of ancient history, law, and archaeology seeking tangible examples of early legal life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

But even for modern thinkers, engrossed in the practical problems of our advanced civilization, the records of antiquity have a direct value. We are better able to deal with the complicated questions of the day if we are acquainted with the simpler issues of the past. We may not set them aside as too remote to have any influence upon us. Not long ago men looked to Greece and Eome for political models. We can hardly estimate the influence which that following of antiquity has had upon our own social life. But there is a deeper influence even than Greek politics and Roman law, still powerfully at work among us, which we owe to a more remote past. We should probably resent the idea that we were not dominated by Christian principles. So far as they are distinct from Greek and Roman ideals, most of them have their roots in Jewish thought. When a careful investigation is made, it will probably be found that the most distinctive Christian principles in our times are those which were taken over from Jewish life, since the Old Testament still more widely appeals to us than the New. But those Jewish ideas regarding society have been inherited in turn from the far more ancient Babylonian
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440032327
• ISBN 13: 9781440032325
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 457
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