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The Old Babylonian Loan Contract

Its History and Geography

Aaron Skaist

A study of the geo-historical distribution of all the loan types as well as of the individual clauses used in the Old Babylonian loan con-tract (c. 1900-1600 B.C.E). It is shown that loan types as well as individual formulas have a limited geographical and historical distribution. Further, it is shown that changes that occur during the lifespan of a formula, e.g., changes of interest rate or modes of guaranteeing loans, are also bounded historically and geographically. From the series ''Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture''.

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Danacode: 110-10377 ISBN: 965-226-161-2 Language: English Pages: 291 Weight: 800 gr Dimensions: 17X25 cm Publication Date: 01/1994 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

An Inquiry into the Concepts of Hittite Interstate Law

The ''Historical Prologue'', an important, integral part of subordination treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., has been known until now mainly from Hittite treaties. Its function in these treaties was to display the justificatio

Love Songs in Sumerian Literature

Critical Edition of the Dumuzi-Inanna Songs

A critical edition of a large group of cultic love poems concerned with the love and sacred marriage of the divine couple, the gods of love and fertility, Dumuzi (Tammuz) and Inanna (Ishtar), together with introduction, English translation, philological c

Bar-Ilan Studies in Assyriology

Dedicated to Prof. Pinhas Artzi

This collection of studies consists of two parts: 1. Papers on Sumerian literature and religion that contain, inter alia, an edition of the "Marriage of Martu" myth by the noted Sumerologist, S.N. Kramer. 2. Studies in the El-Amarna archive, Neo-Assyri