TY  - BOOK
AU  - Magdalene,F.Rachel
AU  - Wunsch,Cornelia
AU  - Wells,Bruce
AU  - Frahm,Eckart
TI  - Fault, responsibility, and administrative law in late Babylonian legal texts
T2  - Mesopotamian civilizations
SN  - 9781646020263
AV  - KL2477 
U1  - 342.35/06 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - Eisenbrauns
KW  - Administrative law
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Babylonia
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Law, Assyro-Babylonian
KW  - Droit assyro-babylonien
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front matter --; Contents --; Preface --; List of Texts --; List of Tables --; List of Abbreviations --; Part I: Analysis --; Chapter One. Introduction --; Chapter Two. The ḫīṭu-Clause and Its Interpretation --; Chapter Three. The ḫīṭu-Documents and the Duties behind Them --; Chapter Four. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Non-Judicial Contexts --; Chapter Five. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Judicial Contexts --; Chapter Six. On History and Theory: Administrative Law and Bureaucracy in Ancient Times --; Chapter Seven. Quasi-Bureaucracy and Administrative Law in the Late Babylonian Period --; Part II: Texts --; Text Editions with Copies --; Text Editions without Copies --; Abstracts of Texts in Forthcoming Publications --; Bibliography --; Indexes --; Documents --; Akkadian Words --; Personal Names in Part II --; Geographic Names in Part II --; Divine Names in Part II --; Authors --; Subjects
N2  - "Investigates the governmental administrative systems of the Late Babylonian period, drawing on S.N. Eisenstadt's model of historical bureaucratic empires to show that the governmental systems of this period developed an early form of administrative law"--
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