Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East

Part 1: The Texts - Part 2: Text, Notes and Chromograms - Part 3: Overall Historical Survey

by Kenneth A. Kitchen and Paul J.N. Lawrence

Book cover: Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East

Extent: 1641 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2012)

ISBN: 9783447067263

8.31 x 11.65 inches

Price: $408.00

In stock

This work presents a far-reaching social profile of life in the Ancient Near East, based on its wealth of law-collections, treaties and covenants through three millennia. Volume 1 (The Texts) sets out a uniquely comprehensive corpus of over 100 such documents in 10 languages, mostly displayed in facing-page transliterations and English translations with individual bibliographies. Volume 2 (Text, Notes, and Chromograms) provides essential philological and background commentary to the texts, fully indexes their subject-matter, and concludes with a revolutionary and innovative series of full-colour diagrams of every text, vividly highlighting variations through the centuries. Finally, Volume 3 (Overall Historical Survey) outlines the flowing interplay of political history, changing social norms and varying documentary formats throughout the whole period. Taken together, this tryptich offers a striking and indispensable new overview of its multifaceted world for Ancient Near-Eastern and biblical studies.

  • By (author) Kenneth A Kitchen
  • By (author) Paul JN Lawrence

"Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East is a welcome addition to scholarship and a highly useful starting point for quickly accessing texts belonging to one of the three genres... As a one-stop shop, it should be on the wish-list of every good university library." -- Silke Knippschild, University of Bristol, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.07.34
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