Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean

From Antiquity to Early Islam

Anselm C. Hagedorn, Reinhard G. Kratz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

426 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955023-4 (ISBN)

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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.

How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies - never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law? Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a scroll? And above all, how did written law shape a society in which the majority population was illiterate?

This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Bringing together a collection of 14 essays from scholars of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Greece, the Ancient Near East, Qumran, Elephantine, the Nabateans, and the early Arab world, it also approaches these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, looking in detail at the notion of law and religion in the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole in both the geographical as well as the historical space.

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.

INTRODUCTION; I; II; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.11.2013
Zusatzinfo	4 in-text illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 218 mm
Gewicht	648 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-955023-9 / 0199550239
ISBN-13	978-0-19-955023-4 / 9780199550234
Zustand	Neuware