Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
C. H. W. Johns, a Cambridge Assyriologist, published Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters in 1904, soon after the discovery of the Code of Hammurabi. He begins with the earliest Babylonian laws and the Code itself, then reconstructs the society they governed from the contracts and records preserved on clay tablets: courts and judges, legal decisions, criminal law, courtship and marriage, divorce and the rights of widows, the education and adoption of children, inheritance, slavery, land tenure, military service, the temples, sales, loans and pledges. Letters, official and private, complete the picture. Johns quotes the documents at length, so that ordinary Babylonians speak through their own agreements and disputes. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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