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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... hired labor , was expensive and disadvantageous , the adopted son or daughter was reliable , cheap , and a most profitable insurance - investment ; for besides the cus- tomary work expected of every child , the adopted took upon himself ...
... hired labor , was expensive and disadvantageous , the adopted son or daughter was reliable , cheap , and a most profitable insurance - investment ; for besides the cus- tomary work expected of every child , the adopted took upon himself ...
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... hired out slaves : ibid . no . 1486 ; bought and sold real estate : ibid . nos . 1566 , 1568 , 1609 , 1610 , 1613 , 1616 , 1617 , 1618 , 1621 , 1622 , 1656 ; bought and sold food supplies : ibid . nos . 1527 , 1771 ; bought and sold ...
... hired out slaves : ibid . no . 1486 ; bought and sold real estate : ibid . nos . 1566 , 1568 , 1609 , 1610 , 1613 , 1616 , 1617 , 1618 , 1621 , 1622 , 1656 ; bought and sold food supplies : ibid . nos . 1527 , 1771 ; bought and sold ...
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... hired out for two years with the stipulation that if he died the one who hired him pay 20 shekels of silver to his master . In Palestine the slave was valued at 30 shekels of silver ; cf. Ex . 21:32 . 6 For the laws of injury in the ...
... hired out for two years with the stipulation that if he died the one who hired him pay 20 shekels of silver to his master . In Palestine the slave was valued at 30 shekels of silver ; cf. Ex . 21:32 . 6 For the laws of injury in the ...
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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