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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... latter to the rate of the temple oikos , the largest financial institution in the city . In both cases the average interest ( i . e . 20-25 % on money and 33 1 / 3 % on grain ) was meant . " The documents do not state whether interest ...
... latter to the rate of the temple oikos , the largest financial institution in the city . In both cases the average interest ( i . e . 20-25 % on money and 33 1 / 3 % on grain ) was meant . " The documents do not state whether interest ...
Page 11
... latter case , the in- terest charged was enormous and out of all proportion . In Sumeria and at the time of the First Dynasty of Babylon , the double of the principal , i . e . 100 % , was charged ; in Neo - Babylonian times we find 40 ...
... latter case , the in- terest charged was enormous and out of all proportion . In Sumeria and at the time of the First Dynasty of Babylon , the double of the principal , i . e . 100 % , was charged ; in Neo - Babylonian times we find 40 ...
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... latter's son should be put to death ; but if the one seized was a slave , the one who seized him should pay to his owner 20 shekels of silver and forfeit whatever amount he had lent . The latter was not meant as a penalty for killing ...
... latter's son should be put to death ; but if the one seized was a slave , the one who seized him should pay to his owner 20 shekels of silver and forfeit whatever amount he had lent . The latter was not meant as a penalty for killing ...
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