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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    nos. 84-111, A. Ungnad published several more from Kannu’ and Kerkiik. S. ScHiFKER discussed many of these as Keilxchriflliche Spureti der in dcr ::weilcn Halftc dex 8. Jahrhunderlx von dan Axxijrern. nacli Mcxopotamieu dcportiertcn Samaricr, a Beihef 't to Onenlalixlixchc lAllcratiirzciLung (Berlin, W. Peiser, 1907), with which may be compared an article in the Proceedingx of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1908, ])[). 107-15, 1.37-41, on The Loxt Ten Trihex of Ixracl, by C. H. W. Johns. In an article Aux dem Louvre, F. E. Peiser published in the Oiientalixtixche Litteratur- seitung, 1903, cols. 192-200, a new collation of no. 1,141 in my Deedx and Documents, which had been formerly treated by Place, Oppert, and Strassmaier; and an edition of another te.xt of this class. The new Supplement to the Catalogue of the Tablets in the Kouyunjik CoUeetio7i hi the British Museum, by L. W. King (London, British Museum, 1914), shows that many more such texts await publication, and there are others in the Museums in England and America. This class of document was early known for the times of the Neo- babylonian Empire, and thousands of the so-called contracts have been published down to the century before the Christian era. J. Oppert began the task of publishing and deciphering contracts, for which his legal training as well as his jihilological learning especially fitted hun. His work may be gathered from the bibliography in the second volume of the Beitrage zur Assyriologie, pp. 523-56. His great effort was Docume7its Juridiques de VAxxtj7'ie et de la Chaldee (Paris, Maisonneuve, 1877), but he continued to deal with contracts up to his death. Here as elsewhere compai'ison of fresh material continually brought new light. A number of such tablets were copied by T. G. Pinches (}) for the fifth volume of Inxcriptio7is of Western Asia (London, British Museum, 1909, plates Ixvii, Ixviii), on which Oppert built his determination of Babylonian measures. J. N. Strassmaier, in 1855, published Die babylonisclmi I)ischrifte7i im Museuvi zu Livc7pool 7iehst andere7i aus der Zeit vo/i Nebukad7iezar bis Daritis (Leiden, J. Brill). The tablets in the British Museum from Sippara, Babylon, Borsippa, &c., dated in the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar, Nabopolassar, Evil-Merodach, Neriglissar, Nabonidus, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius, wei’e also edited by J. N. Strassmaier as Bahylo/iische 'Texte, Insdmften vo7i de/i Tho7itafeln des British M7iseu7/is copiert und autogi'aphiert, in twelve volumes (Leipzig, 1887-1897). On the mass of materiabthus rendered available to scholars were based a very large number of memoirs and monographs which may be arranged here. K. L. Tallqvist, in 1890, published Die Sprachc dcr Co7itracte Nab7l-7id’id’s (Helsingfors, J. C. Frenckell), in which he collected all the words and phrases occurring in these texts, with useful indexes. R. Zehnpfund gave Babylonische Weberreclmxmgen in the Beitr'dgc zur Assijriologie, i, pp. 492 ff. (1890): L. Demuth, Fimfzig Rcchts- 7ind Ver/valiungsurkunde/i, aus der Zeit des Kmigs Ky/vs, in the same journal.