Law In Ancient Egypt
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Law In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Russ VerSteeg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Law In Ancient Egypt written by Russ VerSteeg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Egyptian law categories.
Law in Ancient Egypt examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Egyptians. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for a wide perspective of law and the Egyptian legal system. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of Egyptian law, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both the procedural and substantive aspects of law. Part I considers the theory of justice in ancient Egypt, exploring the role of law in society. Part I also traces the development of the judicial system distinguishing the various types of judges, courts, and procedures that were employed to make justice available to all. Part II reconstructs the substantive laws of the ancient Egyptians, including chapters detailing property, family law, inheritance and succession, tort and criminal law, contracts, and status. Land records, wills, sales documents, court chronicles, works of ancient fiction, and accounts of ancient trials illustrate the sophisticated, often subtle, and complex nature of law in ancient Egypt. This study provides an introduction to law in ancient Egypt. It is the first comprehensive overview of the subject written from the perspective of someone trained as an American lawyer who is also sufficiently familiar with the discipline of Egyptology. The book will be of interest to Egyptologists, legal historians, law students, and educated non-specialists who are interested in the interaction of law, history, and ancient culture.
A History Of Ancient Near Eastern Law 2 Vols
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Author : Raymond Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2003-08-01
A History Of Ancient Near Eastern Law 2 Vols written by Raymond Westbrook and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-01 with History categories.
A comprehensive survey of the Law of the Ancient Near East by a team of specialist scholars, this volume allows non-specialists access to the world's earliest known legal systems.
Wills In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Francis Llewellyn Griffith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Wills In Ancient Egypt written by Francis Llewellyn Griffith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Wills categories.
Law In The Ancient World
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Author : Russ VerSteeg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Law In The Ancient World written by Russ VerSteeg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Law in the Ancient World examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for a wide perspective of law and the procedural features of these ancient legal systems. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of ancient laws, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both procedure and substance. The book is comprised of four units: I. Early Mesopotamian Law; II. Law in Ancient Egypt; III. Law in Classical Athens; and IV. Roman Law. Each unit has three chapters, and the first chapter in each unit begins with an overview which provides essential historial background. Next, each initial chapter considers the role of law in society, exploring law in the abstract, the theoretical bases of justice. The middle chapters in each unit trace the development of the ancient judicial systems, distinguishing the various types of judges, courts, and procedures that were employed to make justice available to both citizens and foreigners. The third chapter in each unit reconstructs the substantive laws, including sections detailing Personal Status, Property, Family Law, Inheritance & Succession, Torts, Criminal Law, and Contracts & Commercial Law. A variety of sources, such as early law collections, land records, wills, sales documents, court chronicles, works of ancient literature, accounts of ancient trials, and great codes such as Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis illustrate the sophisticated, often subtle, and complex nature of law in the ancient world.
Maat Revealed Philosophy Of Justice In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Anna Mancini
language : en
Publisher: BUENOS BOOKS AMERICA LLC
Release Date : 2004
Maat Revealed Philosophy Of Justice In Ancient Egypt written by Anna Mancini and has been published by BUENOS BOOKS AMERICA LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Categories: Egyptology, philosophy of law, history of religions Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and Justice." Egyptian justice is so different from ours that Egyptologists and historians of religions believe they have not yet fully understood its meaning. They regret this fact because understanding Maat would be a gateway to a deeper understanding of the ancient Egyptian world. As for lawyers, they have limited themselves to the Greco-Roman sources on the philosophy of Justice and the discoveries of Egyptologists in this philosophical field remain thoroughly ignored. Thanks to her experience in ancient history of law and her ability to understand ancient symbols, the author provides Egyptology with the missing pieces that were needed to form a coherent image of Maat. Once revealed, Maat sheds a new and unexpected light on the whole of Egyptian civilization. As a bridge between traditionally separate fields of academic research, this book is a useful and groundbreaking contribution to Egyptology, the history of religions and the modern philosophy of law.
A History Of Ancient Near Eastern Law
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Author : Raymond Westbrook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A History Of Ancient Near Eastern Law written by Raymond Westbrook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Law categories.
Annotation The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three millennia to the change of era, specialists in the cultures, languages, and literatures explore the law in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant, and international law. The broad scope and the paucity of data seems to have found its level at about twelve hundred pages. The two volumes are paged together and indexed by subjects, ancient terms, and texts cited. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Classification And Categorization In Ancient Egypt The Legal Register Of Ramesside Private Law Instruments
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Author : Arlette David
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Classification And Categorization In Ancient Egypt The Legal Register Of Ramesside Private Law Instruments written by Arlette David and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Egyptian language categories.
Pursuing the study of legal discourse in ancient Egypt during the well documented 19th and 20th dynasties (circa 1300-1100 B.C.), the book describes the legal language used in recording wills and gifts. It is compared with the language of royal decrees tackled by the author's Syntactic and Lexico- Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees (previously published in the same collection), and with some examples of legal languages associated with private instruments in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and in modern times. After presentation of the criteria used to establish the corpus and the multiple dilemmas involved, each text is analyzed for its linguistic and graphic features, as well as the lexico-semantic features associated with the categorization system embedded in the script (for terminology of spezial legal relevance). Related textual categories such as partitions, 'social gifts', and contract-related records are dealt with separately as they did not constitute enforceable private law instruments. A distinct Ramesside private deeds register (variety of language distinguished according to use) emerges from the analysis, resulting from choices and strategies adapted to a specific legal topic and communicative purpose.
Ancient Egyptian Government
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Author : Leigh Rockwood
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Ancient Egyptian Government written by Leigh Rockwood and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Ancient Egypt was not a great empire at its outset, yet over time it became united under rulers called pharaohs. Each pharaoh was believed to be an incarnation of the god Horus. Readers will learn how this tie between Ancient Egypts government and its religion helped forge an empire. They will also learn about the basics of Ancient Egyptian laws and draw parallels between the ancient world and today.
Ma At Story Of Justice In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Mostafa Shaker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03
Ma At Story Of Justice In Ancient Egypt written by Mostafa Shaker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with categories.
Diploma Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Egyptology, University of Heidelberg (institut von Aegyptologie), language: English, abstract: Egyptian society was founded on the concept of ma‛at. Ma‛at regulated the seasons, the movement of the stars, and relations between man and the gods; it was a golden thread running through their ideas about the universe and their code of ethics; it formed the basis of their thinking and especially of the way they approached justice and law. Ma‛at related to activities of human life and the cosmos in general. After its creation by the sun god Re, ma‛at ordered the universe. Since the pharaoh was a living god, ruling by divine right, he was the supreme judge and lawgiver. As Re's representative on earth, he was responsible for the preservation of ma‛at and was the nexus between ma‛at and the law (hp). Ma‛at had a religious, ethical, and moral connection, since it was the guiding principle for all aspects of life and represented the values that all people sought. Ma'at is an idea, invented by the king, and believed by the whole world
Wills In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Francis Llewellyn Griffith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Wills In Ancient Egypt written by Francis Llewellyn Griffith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Wills categories.