Anselm C. (Hrsg.) Hagedorn

Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean

From Antiquity to Early Islam

Ebook (PDF Format)

How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies - never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law? Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a scroll? And above all, how did written law shape a society in which the majority population was illiterate?This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Bringing together a collection of 14 essays from scholars of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Greece, the Ancient Near East, Qumran, Ele… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kratz, Reinhard G. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-162625-8
EAN: 9780191626258
Produktnummer: 16938458
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'506 KB
Abbildungen: 4 in-text illustrations

Über den Autor

Anselm C. Hagedorn is Privatdozent in Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.; Reinhard G. Kratz is Professor for the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.