Fault, responsibility, and administrative law in late Babylonian legal texts / F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch, and Bruce Wells ; with contributions from E. Frahm [and 3 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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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

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