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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Main Author: Holtz, Shalom E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Gregorian & Biblical Press 2023
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
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
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