Chapter 17. To Be Guilty at Nuzi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Law and (Dis)Order in Ghent (and the Ancient Near East) viii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Program xvii
6. Chapter 1. Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature 1
7. Chapter 2. Le vol à l’époque paléo- babylonienne : L’application de la loi à travers la jurisprudence 10
8. Chapter 3. “Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie” or the Taboo (NÍG.GIG=ikkibu) of the Sacredness of Sleep as Order and Noise at Night (“tapage nocturne”) as Disorder in Some Ancient Near Eastern Texts 19
9. Chapter 4. Lorsque les généraux prêtent serment ... : Quelques remarques sur l’usage du serment de loyauté (depuis la documentation d’Ur III jusqu’à l’époque néo- assyrienne) 37
10. Chapter 5. Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality? 48
11. Chapter 6. The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo-Assyrian Documents 61
12. Chapter 7. Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte: A Source of Order or Disorder in the Legal System? 78
13. Chapter 8. What the “Man of One Mina” Wanted: Law and Commerce in the Ur III Period 87
14. Chapter 9. How Ancient Near Eastern Societies Regulated Life in the Community: Crucial Clues from Archaeology 95
15. Chapter 10. A Variationist Approach to Orthographic and Phonological Peculiarities of the Language in the Laws of Hammurabi 117
16. Chapter 11. “For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me Replace Him One Hundred- Fold”: Fugitives/ Runaways in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 136
17. Chapter 12. Perfections of Justice? Measure for Measure Aspirations in Biblical and Cuneiform Sources 144
18. Chapter 13. Putting Some Order in Ur III Letter- Orders 153
19. Chapter 14. Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination 169
20. Chapter 15. (Mis)Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn’t Have Been Competent, They Didn’t Go to Yale 177
21. Chapter 16. Rétablir l’ordre par la mort dans les textes législatifs du début du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. 199
22. Chapter 17. To Be Guilty at Nuzi 208
23. Chapter 18. Fremde Götter—eigene Götter: Zu den neuassyrischen Götterbeschreibungen 219
24. Chapter 19. “Not Even Her Own Jewelry”: Marital Property in the Middle Assyrian Laws 242
25. Chapter 20. Disorder and Its Agents: The Akkadian Epic of Anzû Revisited 270
26. Chapter 21. When the Trial Does Not Work: Pathological Elements in the Judicial Procedure in the Old Babylonian Period 284
27. Chapter 22. The Ashurbanipal Library Project at the British Museum 291
28. Chapter 23. The Sea and Monarchic Legitimation in the Ancient Near East 297
29. Chapter 24. Putting Life in Order: The Architecture of the New Excavations in Kamid el-Loz, Lebanon 308
30. Chapter 25. Enmity Against Samsu-ditāna 324
31. Contributors 333