Hammurabi's wronged man

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 38-45

  Roth, Martha T ^a  

^a Oriental Institute

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DOI: 10.2307/3087651     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. See M. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. SBLWritings from the Ancient World, vol. 6 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995; 2ndrevised ed., 2000), 134f.; the translation here is slightly modified.
2. The volume has now been reviewed by P. Dion, JAOS 121 (2001): 314f.
3. Roth, La codification des lois, 20-21.
4. Westbrook, La codification des lois, 34-36.
5. G. R. Driver and J. C. Miles, The Babylonian Laws, vol. 1: Legal Commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 41.
6. Lafont, La codification des lois, 53-55; the applicability ofsubsidiarity is current in discussions within the European Union.
7. A. V. Hurowitz, Inu Anum scombining dot belowīrum: Literary Structures in the Non-Juridical Sections of Codex Hammurabi, Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, no. 15 (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1994);
8. cited by Roth, La Codification, 18 n. 19, but not in the Wronged Mandiscussion.
9. G. Ries, Prolog und Epilog in Gesetzen des Altertums (Munich: C. H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1983), 25-30, called this the "Schema von Auftrag im Prolog und Erfüllung im Epilog."
10. Hurowitz, Literary Structures, 45-61.
11. See E. Dombradi, Die Darstellung des Rechtsaustrags in denaltbabylonischen Prozessurkunden, Freiburger Altorientalische Studien, no. 20/1(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996), 60ff. (§§81-82).
12. Dombradi, Prozessurkunden, vol. 1, 89 (§119)
13. Danielle S. Allen, "Democratic Dis-ease: Of Anger and the Troubling Nature of Punishment, " in The Passions of Law, ed. Susan A. Bandes (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1999), 191-214.
14. scombining dot belowāb nishcombining caron belowātim (withvar. scombining dot belowābē ana nisihcombining caron belowtim) isdifficult. My earlier translation of scombining dot belowāb nishcombiningcaron belowātim in LH §33 in Law Collections (p. 87), which followedthat in CAD N/2 269 s.v. nisihcombining caron belowtu mng. 3 (in turn following B. Landsberger, "On the Archive of Ubarum, " Journal of Cuneiform Studies 9 (1955): 124f. with note 20) is almost certainly incorrect.
15. I am now persuaded by F. R. Kraus, Königliche Verfügungen inaltbabylonischer Zeit, Studia et Documenta, 11 (Leiden: Brill, 1986), 92 n. 209, that the sense of nasāhcombining caron belowu suggested by the referencescited AHw. 961
16. For some discussion, see M. J. Ellis, "Land of Deadrēdû 's, " in Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, no.19, ed. M. de J. Ellis (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1977), 61-66.
17. for the reading of PA.PA, see D. Charpin, "La hiérarchie del'armée babylonienne, " NABU 2000/18.
18. At least one native tradition understood the topics of these provisionsin different terms. Source "r" prefaces the provisions beginning with§26 "decisions concerning soldier and fisherman, " and thosebeginning with §36 "decisions concerning contracts of hire andpurchase"; see Roth, Law Collections, 75.
19. [= J. J. Finkelstein, "Some New misharum Material and its Implications, " in Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger, Assyriological Studies, no. 16 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965), 233-46]
20. UET 6 402, see C. J. Gadd, "Two Sketches from the Life at Ur, "Iraq 25 (1960): 177-88;
21. D. Charpin, Le clergé d'Ur au siècle d'Hammurabi (Geneva:Librairie Droz, 1986), 326-29;
22. K. Hecker, in Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testament (Gütersloh, 1982), vol. 2/5, 750-52;
23. W. Moran, "UET 6 402: Persuasion in the Plain Style, " Journalof the Ancient Near Eastern Society 22 (1992): 113-20;
24. B. Foster, Before the Muses (Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 1993), 154-55.
25. With Moran, "Persuasion, " 115 n. 9.
26. F. R. Kraus, Briefe aus dem Archive des Šamaš- hcombiningcaron belowāzir, Altbabylonische Briefe, no. 4 (Leiden: Brill, 1968), No.73.
27. A. 1968, in J.-M. Durand, "Le mythologème du combat entre le Dieu de l'orage et la Mer en Mésopotamie, " MARI 7 (1993): 41-61(autograph copy p. 44).
28. A.1121 + A.2731, in B. Lafont, "Le roi de Mari et lesprophètes du dieu Adad, " RA 78 (1984): 7-18 (autograph copy p. 8).
29. After J. Cooper, Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions, I: Presargonic Inscriptions (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1986), 71ff.
30. See also W. W. Hallo, in The Context of Scripture, vol. 2, ed. W. W.Hallo and K. L. Younger, Jr. (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 407f.
31. with M. W. Stolper, "No Harm Done: On Late Achaemenid pirku Guarantees, " in Assyriologica et Semitica, Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, no. 252, ed. J. Marzahn and H.Neumann (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2000), 467;