Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean - From Antiquity to Early Islam

This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Approaching these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, it also looks at the notion of law and religion in this region as a whole, in both the geographical as well as the historical space.

List of contents

• Introduction


• I


• 1: Arlette David: The Sound of the Magic Flute in Legal and Religious Registers of the Ramesside Period: Some Common Features of Two 'Ritualistic Languages'


• 2: Josef Wiesehöfer: Law and Religion in Achaemenidian Iran


• 3: Michael Gagarin: Law and Religion in Early Greece


• 4: F. S. Naiden: Gods, Kings, and Lawgivers


• 5: Alejandro F. Botta: Hated by the Gods and your Spouse


• 6: Andrew D. Gross: Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean


• 7: John F. Healey: Fines and Curses: Law and Religion among the Nabataeans and their Neighbours


• II


• 8: Bernard S. Jackson: Law and Religion in the Hebrew Bible


• 9: Eckart Otto: The History of the Legal-Religious Hermeneutics of the Book of Deuteronomy from the Assyrian to the Hellenistic Period


• 10: Reinhard G. Kratz: 'The peg in the wall': Cultic Centralization revisited


• 11: Bruce Wells: Is It Law or Religion? Legal Motivations in Deuteronomic and Neo-Babylonian Texts


• 12: Rachel Magdalene: Job's compositional history one more time: What its law might contribute


• 13: Aharon Shemesh: 'For the judgment is God's' (Deut. 1: 17): Biblical and communal law in the Dead Sea Scrolls


• 14: Irene Schneider: The Jurist as a Mujtahid - the Hermeneutical Concept of Abu l-Hasan Alial-Mawardi (d. 449/1058)


• Index

About the author

Anselm C. Hagedorn is Privatdozent in Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.; Reinhard G. Kratz is Professor for the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Summary

This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Approaching these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, it also looks at the notion of law and religion in this region as a whole, in both the geographical as well as the historical space.

Product details

• Authors: Anselm C. Hagedorn, Anselm C. (Privatdozent Hagedorn, Anselm C. Kratz Hagedorn, Reinhard G. Kratz
• Assisted by: Anselm C. Hagedorn (Editor), Anselm C. (Privatdozent Hagedorn (Editor), Hagedorn Anselm C. (Editor), Reinhard G. Kratz (Editor), Reinhard G. (Professor of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Kratz (Editor), Kratz Reinhard G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199550234
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955023-4
• No. of pages: 426
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / History, LAW / Legal History, History of Religion, Ancient World, Legal History, Ancient History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Mediterranean countries, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory