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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A Comparative Study (3000-500 B.C.) Isaac Mendelsohn. III . SELLING OF CHILDREN ( A ) INFANTS The selling of infants by their parents was common in early Babylonia . A mother who was unable to pay for the nursing would leave her baby ...
A Comparative Study (3000-500 B.C.) Isaac Mendelsohn. III . SELLING OF CHILDREN ( A ) INFANTS The selling of infants by their parents was common in early Babylonia . A mother who was unable to pay for the nursing would leave her baby ...
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... Selling of minors was also practiced in Assyria . Direct handing over of a daughter for a debt of 30 shekels of silver ... sell his children into slavery in Palestine is obvious from the Biblical slave legislation . The very fact that Ex ...
... Selling of minors was also practiced in Assyria . Direct handing over of a daughter for a debt of 30 shekels of silver ... sell his children into slavery in Palestine is obvious from the Biblical slave legislation . The very fact that Ex ...
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... sell his wife when hard pressed by his creditors ( 117 ) . In a society where a creditor had a right to enslave his debtor , where parents could legally sell their children , and where a free - born man could sell him- self , the selling ...
... sell his wife when hard pressed by his creditors ( 117 ) . In a society where a creditor had a right to enslave his debtor , where parents could legally sell their children , and where a free - born man could sell him- self , the selling ...
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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