Law from the Tigris to the Tiber

The Writings of Raymond Westbrook

Raymond Westbrook author Bruce Wells editor F Rachel Magdalene editor

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press

Published:30th Jun '09

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Law from the Tigris to the Tiber cover

Raymond Westbrook (1946–2009) was acknowledged by many as the world’s foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out Westbrook’s theory of a common legal tradition that spanned the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Israel and even to Greece and Rome. The second volume, Cuneiform and Biblical Sources, provides 28 articles that demonstrate Westbrook’s unique method of legal analysis that he applied to the numerous texts he worked with as an Assyriologist and biblical scholar, from law codes to contracts to narratives. Each volume contains its own comprehensive bibliography, as well as subject, author, and text indexes. Together, they represent the life’s work of one of the most important legal historians of our era.

ISBN: 9781575061771

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 84mm

Weight: 1996g

1108 pages