Raymond Westbrook Author & Editor

Raymond Westbrook (1946-2009) was the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University. The editor of A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, vols. I and II, he was the coeditor of Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law, Isaiah's Vision of Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations: Swords into Plowshares, and Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. Deborah Lyons is an associate professor of classics at Miami University. She is the author of Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Culture and Dangerous Gifts: Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece. Kurt Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and professor emeritus of classics and history at Brown University. He is the author of The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece, the editor of War and Peace in the Ancient World, and the coeditor of A Companion to Archaic Greece.