The relations between the laws of Babylonia and the laws of the Hebrew peoples / by C.H.W. Johns.

  • Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter), 1857-1920.
Date:
1914
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    St. Langdon published several more of these Tablets from Kish in the Proceedings of the Societi/ of Biblical Archaeology, 191U PP- 185—96, and in the same journal for 1912, ])p. 109-13, gave eleven Contracts from Larsa. C. E. Keiser published Tags and Labels fi-om Nippur in The Museum Journal of Philadelphia, vol. iii, no. 2, pji. 29-31. These closely i-elated documents form a borderland between contracts and accounts. These contracts are so much more important for the elucidation of the Code than any later documents that we may now notice the chief discussions of them. Not much of this class of documents has yet come to light for the Third or Kassite Dynasty of Babylon. A. T. Clay gave us vols. xiv, XV of the Publications of the Babylonian Expedition of the University, of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1906), entitled Documents from the Temple Archives of Nippiir, dated in the Reigns of Cassite Rulers. They showed how the old customs were preserved and modified Avith fi-esh immigrations. These were followed in 1912 by Documents from the Temple Archives of Nippur, dated in the Reigns of Cassite Rulers, the Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section, vol. ii, no. 2 (Philadelphia Museum), completing the collections. Some of the same sort from Nippur, in the E. A. Hoffmann collection in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, were noted in Radau’s Early Babylonian History, pp. 328-9 (New York, 1900). F. E. Peiser, in 1905, had jmblished Urkunden aus der Zeit der dritten babylonischen Dynastic in Urschrift, Umschiift und Ubersetzung, dazu Rechts- ausf uhrungen von J. Kohler (Berlin, Wolf Peiser). These appear to have belonged to a family of Babylonians, some of whom adopted Cassite names. More of the same group found their way to the Berlin Museums, and more are in private hands and in the Louvre. C. J. Ball contributed to the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology for 1907, pp. 273-4, A Kassite Text. D. D. Luckenbill in the Ameiican Journal of Seinitic Languages and Literatures, 1907, pp. 280-322, gave a most valuable Study of the Temple Documents from the Cassite Petiod. The scarcity of legal documents from this period may be estimated from the fact that in Texte juristischen und geschdftlichen Inhalts (see p. 81, above) only the so-called boundary-stones could be quoted. It is in the Third Dynasty of Babylon that the Boundary-Stone or Kudurru inscriptions first appear. These have been much discussed, especially from the side of the curious symbols which occur upon them, often regarded as signs of the Zodiac, or emblems of the gods. In the Beitr'dge zur A,ssyriologie, vol. ii, pp. 111-204, a number of such texts were published and partly discussed by C. Belser, as Babylonische Kudurru-Inschriften. Peiser incorporated some in the fourth volume of SriiRADEu’s Kcilin.svhiiftliche Bibliothek. W. J. Hinke gave in 1907, as g2