Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts

by Bruce Wells, Cornelia Wunsch, F Rachel Magdalene

This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period--specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires--and provides evidence demonstrating that these are among the first to have developed an early form of administrative law.

The present study revolves around a particular expression that, in its most common form, reads ḫīṭu sa sarri isaddad and can be translated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575069903
• ISBN13: 9781575069906
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.1" x 10.2"