Hammurabi's Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary

by M. E. J. Richardson

Overview

Richardson supplies a new translation and transcription (which incorporates the most important manuscript variants) of the most famous of all ancient Mesopotamian texts. He also provides a complete lexical analysis of every word that is used in it. The edition covers the prologue and epilogue as well as the laws themselves. Students of the Bible, ancient Near Eastern law and general Semitics are now provided with an indispensable reference tool in a convenient form. The detailed information in the glossary, where the full context of every quotation is given, will also be a tremendous help to those who want to learn or revisit Akkadian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567081582
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/07/2005
Series:	Academic Paperback Series
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

M.E.J. Richardson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Netherlands Instititute for Near Eastern Studies following his retirement from the Department of Middle Eastern, University of Manchester, UK.