Social Justice in the Ancient Near East and the People of the Bible

by Leon Epsztein

This book is one of a series of supplementary volumes published alongside the Jerusalem Bible in France and intended to provide a general introduction to the world in which the Bible is set; the series includes such famous titles as Jeremias' Jerusalem in the time of Jesus and de Vaux's Ancient Israel. It is an exhaustive study of the legal and sociological background of texts dealing with social justice, first in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and then in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334023343
• ISBN13: 9780334023340
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"