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Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

This volume examines how gender relations were regulated in ancient Near Eastern and biblical law. The textual corpus examined includes the various pertinent law collections, royal decrees and instructions from Mesopotamia and Hatti and the three biblical legal collections.

Peled explores issues beginning with the wide societal perspective of gender equality and inequality, continues to the institutional perspective of economy, palace and temple, the family and, lastly, sex crimes. All the texts mentioned or referred to in the book are given in an appendix, both in the original languages and in English translation, allowing scholars to access the primary sources for themselves.

Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on Near Eastern society and culture and gender in the ancient world more broadly.

Ilan Peled is an Assyriologist working at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East and editor of Structures of Power: Law and Gender Across the Ancient Near East and Beyond.

Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Ilan Peled

First published 2020
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2020 Ilan Peled

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ISBN: 9780367371494 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780429352867 (ebk)

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Contents

PART II
Texts: The primary sources mentioned and discussed in the book

The idea for this book was planted back in March 2015. At the time, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and had just finished organizing a conference on law and gender in the ancient world, the proceedings of which were eventually published a few years later. The conference was highly successful in forming a platform for discussing the intriguing interface between law and gender in various historical settings, ranging between Mesopotamia, Hatti and Egypt, the Greek and Roman cultures, ancient China, Judaism and Islam. The drawback of such diversity, of course, was the utter incapability of reaching any in-depth discussion focusing on one of these settings. The current book, therefore, owes much to the shortcomings of that conference and its published volume, for these formed the main trigger of this books inception. In this regard, I wholeheartedly thank everyone at the OI for providing me with the much-needed scholarly environment that facilitated the early stages of working on the current book.

The following years saw a slow progress of consolidating the book manuscript, as life circumstances prevented me at times from dedicating my full time and energy to the book. I was engaged in different enterprises, in different institutions, until finding my academic home in the University of Amsterdam, where I finally could dedicate more of my time to the long-neglected manuscript. The wonderful collegiality I found here means the world to me, and it is with great pleasure that I acknowledge the colleagues who gave me my academic home: Irene Zwiep, Yaniv Hagbi, Resianne Smidt van Gelder-Fontaine and Bart Wallet.

Large portions of this book were written during my endless train trips to/from work in Amsterdam. The beautiful green scenery of rural Netherlands that accompanied these trips certainly was an inspiration!

Several colleagues assisted me with wise advice, especially in the realm of legal thought. I wish to wholeheartedly thank Kristin Kleber and Jan Hallebeek, two experts on ancient law Mesopotamian and Roman, respectively who generously shared their knowledge and expertise with me. Martha Roth deserves my special gratitude, for thoughtfully giving me many important comments and corrections and sharing with me her newly- and pre-published articles, to which I would have not had access otherwise.

Special thanks go to everyone at Routledge who were part of the process of production, from peer review to final publication: Amy Davis-Poynter, Ella Halstead and everyone else. It is thanks to them that the process was efficient, professional and even enjoyable something I do not take for granted!

Finally, and most importantly, my family has always been there with me, in better times and in worse ones. No obstacle is unsurmountable when life grants you with the richest treasure of all, for which I am grateful on a daily basis. Ortal, Dan and Ophir: thank you, I love you.

AASOR	The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
CAD	I. J. Gelb et al. (eds.), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, 1956 ff.
CC	Covenant Code
CHD	H. G. Gterbock, H. A. Hoffner and Th. P. J. van den Hout (eds.), The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, 1980 ff.
CTH	E. Laroche, Catalogue des textes Hittites, Paris, 1971
DC	Deuteronomic Code
ESi/Ad/A	Edicts of Samsu-iluna/Ammi-ditana/Ammi-aduka
HC	Holiness Code
HED	J. Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary, Berlin and New York, 1984 ff.
HL	Hittite Laws
IM	Tablets in the collections of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
ITT	Inventaire des tablettes de Tello
KAJ	E. Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur juristischen Inhalts, Berlin, 1927
KBo	H. H. Figulla et al., Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazki, Leipzig and Berlin, 1916 ff.
KUB	H. H. Figulla et al., Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazki, Berlin, 1921 ff.

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