Legal Aspects of Slavery in Babylonia, Assyria and Palestine: A Comparative Study (3000-500 B.C.)Bayard Press, 1932 - 73 pages |
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... CHILD Adoption of free - born children and even of slaves ' was a common and frequent practice in early Babylonia . Married couples who had no issue of their own , priest- esses who were allowed to marry but not to have off- spring ...
... CHILD Adoption of free - born children and even of slaves ' was a common and frequent practice in early Babylonia . Married couples who had no issue of their own , priest- esses who were allowed to marry but not to have off- spring ...
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... child in case of refusal to provide for his foster - father was consistent with the very nature of the undertaking . Both contracting par- ties made investments with desire for future returns : the foster - father expected to be cared ...
... child in case of refusal to provide for his foster - father was consistent with the very nature of the undertaking . Both contracting par- ties made investments with desire for future returns : the foster - father expected to be cared ...
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... child or adopted it as her own . In cases where the wetnurse felt a particular liking for the child , or where the sum owed for the nursing was judged to be lower than the actual value of the infant , the parents would receive the ...
... child or adopted it as her own . In cases where the wetnurse felt a particular liking for the child , or where the sum owed for the nursing was judged to be lower than the actual value of the infant , the parents would receive the ...
Common terms and phrases
20 shekels a-na adopted child Amel-Marduk Ammi-ditana Assyrian Babylonian bennu Biblical brand Cassite period clause Clay Code of Hammurabi Collège de France concubine creditor daughter death debt debt-slave dedicated defaulting debtor Dilbat document dated Dougherty early Babylonia early Israel enslavement Erech father female slave foster free woman free-born freed fugitive slave gold gins Hammurabi Code hand Hebrew Hebrew slave HG vol i-na Ibid Iltani interest Ishtar Ishtar of Erech Johns ADD kaspi Kohler-Peiser Kohler-Ungnad Koschaker BAB loan Lutz male slave master Matulka-The Meissner BAP mistress mother murabi Nabu Neo-Babylonian Neriglissar Nippur non-Hebrew owner Palestine peculium Peiser TJG pledge Poebel BLBD punishment redeem reign of Rim-Sin release Rim-Sin Schorr seized sell Shamash SHBD shekels of silver shirku shirkutu shum-ma Sin-muballit Sippar slave mark slavery Sumerian temple Ubar-Shamash Ungnad unto Warad-bunene wife WZKM