How Mesopotamian Scribes Learned to Write Legal Documents: A Study of the Sumerian Model Contracts in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University - Hardcover

Bodine, Walter R.

9780773435377: How Mesopotamian Scribes Learned to Write Legal Documents: A Study of the Sumerian Model Contracts in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University

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ISBN 10: 0773435379 ISBN 13: 9780773435377

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

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Consists of an edition of six tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection with an introduction to the Sumerian model contracts --

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About the Author

Dr. Walter R. Bodine received his Ph.D. with majors in Biblical Hebrew and Hebrew Bible Studies from Harvard University. He taught New Testament Greek at Crichton College; has served as an Associate Professor of Semitics and Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, worked as a Research Affiliate in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University and currently serves as Pastor Emeritus, International Church at Yale.

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"Dr. Bodine has judiciously confined his attention to one group of model contracts, namely those of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University...In each case, he has photographed and hand-copied the texts, restored missing or broken cuneiform signs on the basis of parallels among functional contracts of comparable import, provided an up-to-date survey of the entire genre of model contracts, and exhaustively studied the legal implications of their various types." (Dr. William W. Hallo, Yale University) "Walter Bodine has written a model book of its kind - a thorough edition and discussion of six tablets, about two dozen texts, of the type that is known as model contracts...The texts are all Sumerian and written for the most part in the Old Babylonian period. They not only open a window on how law can facilitate life; these tablets show with abundant clarity how scribes were educated in writing law, by copying and assimilating the work of the masters." (Dr. Edward Greenstein, Bar-Ilan University)

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