RT Article
T1 A deo lex?: law and religion in ancient near eastern legislation
JF Journal for semitics
VO 29
IS 1
SP 1
OP 13
A1 Peled, Ilan 1969-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1735392006
AB The ancient Near East is widely regarded as the “cradle of Western civilisation” and the birthplace of writing. As such, it was home to the earliest documented compendia we sometimes call “law collections”, and to some of the earliest records of institutionalised religion in human history. In the ancient Near East, these two major systems, official law and organised religion, did not usually intermingle. When they did, they compensated for one another, filling the gaps caused by the limitations of the other.
K1 Ancient Near Eastern law
K1 Ancient Near Eastern law collections
K1 Ancient Near Eastern Religion
K1 legal procedure
K1 Oath
K1 River Ordeal
DO 10.25159/2663-6573/7502