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Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts
Ort / Verlag
Penn State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of
the Late Babylonian period-specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian
and early Persian empires-and provides evidence demonstrating that
these are among the first to have developed an early form of
administrative law.
The present study revolves around a particular expression that,
in its most common form, reads ḫīṭu ša šarri išaddad and
can be translated as "he will be guilty (of an offense) against the
king." The authors analyze ninety-six documents, thirty-two of
which have not been previously published, discussing each text in
detail, including the syntax of this clause and its legal
consequences, which involve the delegation of responsibility in an
administrative context. Placing these documents in their historical
and institutional contexts, and drawing from the theories of Max
Weber and S. N. Eisenstadt, the authors aim to show that the
administrative bureaucracy underlying these documents was a more
complex, systematized, and rational system than has previously been
recognized.
Accompanied by extensive indexes, as well as transcriptions and
translations of each text analyzed here, this book breaks new
ground in the study of ancient legal systems.