Foreign but Fair: Legal Disputes of Judeans in the Achaemenid Era
Judean litigants are attested in a small group of Achaemenid-era dispute records in Akkadian from Mesopotamia and Aramaic from Egypt. These texts, despite their geographic and linguistic diversity, shed light on the Achaemenid Empire’s administration of justice, as well as on an important aspect of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Orientalia
Year: 2023, Volume: 92, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-201 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jews
/ Quarreling
/ Process
/ Akkadian language
/ Mesopotamia
/ Egypt
/ History 500 BC-301 BC
/ Marriage
/ Ethos
/ Law
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | Judean litigants are attested in a small group of Achaemenid-era dispute records in Akkadian from Mesopotamia and Aramaic from Egypt. These texts, despite their geographic and linguistic diversity, shed light on the Achaemenid Empire’s administration of justice, as well as on an important aspect of the Judean experience as the Empire’s subjects. Following recent scholarship on marriage, this study identifies ways in which law and ethnicity might have interacted during the adjudicatory process. Although closely associated with the foreign imperial apparatus, adjudication was fair towards Judean subjects. |
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| ISSN: | 3041-3648 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Orientalia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ORI.92.2.3292616 |