Preface . . . .ix Abbreviations. . . .xi Program. . . .xvii Chapter 1. Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present:
On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature . . . . 1 Netanel Anor
Chapter 2. Le vol à l’époque paléo- babylonienne:
L’application de la loi à travers la jurisprudence . . . 10 Dalila Bendellal- Younsi
Chapter 3. “Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie” or the Taboo (NÍG.GIG=
ikkibu) of the Sacredness of Sleep as Order and Noise at Night (“tapage
nocturne”) as Disorder in Some Ancient Near Eastern Texts. . . 19 Daniel Bodi
Chapter 4. Lorsque les généraux prêtent serment . . . :
Quelques remarques sur l’usage du serment de loyauté (depuis la
documentation d’Ur III jusqu’à l’époque néo- assyrienne) . . . . 37 Daniel Bonneterre
Chapter 5. Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality? . . . . 48 Sophie Démare- Lafont
Chapter 6. The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo- Assyrian Documents . . . 61 Aline Distexhe
Chapter 7. Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte: A Source of Order or
Disorder in the Legal System? . . . . 78 Lena Fijałkowska
Chapter 8. What the “Man of One Mina” Wanted: Law and Commerce
in the Ur III Period . . . . 87 Steven Garfinkle
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Chapter 9. How Ancient Near Eastern Societies Regulated Life in the
Community: Crucial Clues from Archaeology . . . . 95 Mònica Bouso and Anna Gómez- Bach
Chapter 10. A Variationist Approach to Orthographic and Phonological
Peculiarities of the Language in the Laws of Hammurabi . . . . 117 Rodrigo Hernáiz
Chapter 11. “For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me Replace
Him One Hundred- Fold”: Fugitives/Runaways in the Neo- Assyrian Empire . . .136 Krzysztof Hipp
Chapter 12. Perfections of Justice? Measure for Measure Aspirations
in Biblical and Cuneiform Sources . . . .144 Sandra Jacobs
Chapter 13. Putting Some Order in Ur III Letter- Orders . . . .153 Daniele Umberto Lampasona
Chapter 14. Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom:
Shedding New Light on Oil Divination . . . .169 Alex Loktionov and Christoph Schmidhuber
Chapter 15. (Mis)Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn’t Have Been
Competent, They Didn’t Go to Yale . . . .177 Kathleen McCaffrey
Chapter 16. Rétablir l’ordre par la mort dans les textes législatifs
du début du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. . . . .199 Virginie Muller
Chapter 17. To Be Guilty at Nuzi . . . 208 Paola Negri Scafa
Chapter 18. Fremde Götter—eigene Götter: Zu den neuassyrischen
Götterbeschreibungen . . . .219 Reettakaisa Sofia Salo
Chapter 19. “Not Even Her Own Jewelry”: Marital Property in the
Middle Assyrian Laws . . . 242 JoAnn Scurlock
Chapter 20. Disorder and Its Agents: The Akkadian Epic of Anzû
Revisited . . . 270 Dahlia Shehata
Chapter 21. When the Trial Does Not Work: Pathological Elements
in the Judicial Procedure in the Old Babylonian Period . . . 284 Cristina Simonetti
Chapter 22. The Ashurbanipal Library Project at the British Museum . . . . .291 Jon Taylor
Contents vii Chapter 23. The Sea and Monarchic Legitimation
in the Ancient Near East . . . 297 Joanna Töyräänvuori
Chapter 24. Putting Life in Order: The Architecture
of the New Excavations in Kamid el- Loz, Lebanon . . . 308 Julia Linke and Elisabeth Wagner- Durand
Chapter 25. Enmity Against Samsu- ditāna . . . 324 Elyze Zomer
Contributors . . . . 333
