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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... give a quittance . They mutilate his ears by boring . " " This law , however , did not apply to wives , minor sons , or unmarried daughters . They could be pledged , and were retained by the creditor until redeemed . " If a man has ...
... give a quittance . They mutilate his ears by boring . " " This law , however , did not apply to wives , minor sons , or unmarried daughters . They could be pledged , and were retained by the creditor until redeemed . " If a man has ...
Page 19
... give a new interpretation of the old injunction which prohibited the enslavement of the insolvent debtor for life . It impressed upon the mind of the reluctant creditor who was loath to free his debtor after six years of servitude that ...
... give a new interpretation of the old injunction which prohibited the enslavement of the insolvent debtor for life . It impressed upon the mind of the reluctant creditor who was loath to free his debtor after six years of servitude that ...
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... give him shelter and to help him on his way home . The Hammurabi Code recognized four legal ways by which freedom was granted to the slave , without the master's having anything to say in the matter : ( 1 ) wives and children handed ...
... give him shelter and to help him on his way home . The Hammurabi Code recognized four legal ways by which freedom was granted to the slave , without the master's having anything to say in the matter : ( 1 ) wives and children handed ...
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