Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East: Part 1: The Texts - Part 2: Text, Notes and Chromograms - Part 3: Overall Historical Survey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783447067263)

This work presents a far-reaching social profile of life in the Ancient Near East, based on its wealth of law-collections, treaties and covenants through three millennia. Volume 1 (The Texts) sets out a uniquely comprehensive corpus of over 100 such documents in 10 languages, mostly displayed in facing-page transliterations and English translations with individual bibliographies. Volume 2 (Text, Notes, and Chromograms) provides essential philological and background commentary to the texts, fully indexes their subject-matter, and concludes with a revolutionary and innovative series of full-colour diagrams of every text, vividly highlighting variations through the centuries. Finally, Volume 3 (Overall Historical Survey) outlines the flowing interplay of political history, changing social norms and varying documentary formats throughout the whole period. Taken together, this tryptich offers a striking and indispensable new overview of its multifaceted world for Ancient Near-Eastern and biblical studies.

Author: Kenneth A. Kitchen,Paul Jn Lawrence
ISBN-10: 3447067268
ISBN-13: 9783447067263
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2012
Pages: 1641
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 12.12lbs
Size: 12.00h x 8.90w x 3.90d