(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a new book on the
regulation of gender relations in the ancient Near East and biblical law.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ilan Peled is an Assyriologist working at the University of Amsterdam,
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The
Societal Perspective: Social Status and Gender (In)equality
2. The
Institutional Perspective: Bureaucracy and Economy: The Palace, Temple, and
Beyond
3. The
Familial Perspective: Regulation of Family Life
4. The
Individual Perspective: Morality and Sex Crimes
5. Summary,
Analysis and Conclusions
Part II
6. Texts:
The Primary Sources Mentioned and Discussed in the Book
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