Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean by Anselm Hagedorn

Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean by Anselm Hagedorn

How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies - never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law? Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a scroll? And above all, how did written law shape a society in which the majority population was illiterate? This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Bringing together a collection of 14 essays from scholars of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Greece, the Ancient Near East, Qumran, Elephantine, the Nabateans, and the early Arab world, it also approaches these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, looking in detail at the notion of law and religion in the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole in both the geographical as well as the historical space.

Anselm C. Hagedorn is Privatdozent in Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.; Reinhard G. Kratz is Professor for the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9780199550234
ISBN 10	0199550239
Title	Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean
Author	Anselm C Hagedorn
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2013-10-31
Number of pages	426
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