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Arlette David
Oct 24, 2013, 12:16:32 AM10/24/13
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Dear Group,
You'll find in Bryn Mawr
Classical Review 2013.10.43 (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-10-43.html)
a review by David M. Ratzan of
Thomas A. J. McGinn (ed.), 2012.
Obligations in Roman Law: Past, Present, and Future. Papers and
monographs of the American Academy in Rome 33. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press.
Best wishes,
Dr. Arlette DAVID
Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient Near
East
Scholion Interdisciplinary Center in Jewish Studies
Scholion Interdisciplinary Center in Jewish Studies
The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Arlette DAVID
Oct 24, 2013, 11:29:36 PM10/24/13
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Dear Group,
The Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures Maarav volume 18 (a double issue) has just appeared (http://www.maarav.com/):
“Law and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World: The Raymond Westbrook Memorial Volume,” Guest edited by Anselm C. Hagedorn.
Contents:
F. Rachel Magdalene, “Legal Science Then and Now: Theory and Method in
the Work of Raymond Westbrook”
Sophie Démare-Lafont, “From the Banks of the Seine to the Bay of
Chesapeake: Crossglances on Ancient Near Eastern Law.”
Anselm C. Hagedorn, “How Far Does a Legal Koine Extend? Remarks on
Raymond Westbrook’s ‘Common Law’ in the Mediterranean”
Ronan Head, “Amarna Messengers and the Politics of Feasting”
Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, “What Was Codex Hammurabi, and What Did It Become?”
Bruce Wells, “First Wives Club: Divorce, Demotion, and the Fate of
Leah in Genesis 29”
Bernard M. Levinson, “The Case for Revision and Interpolation within
the Biblical Legal Corpora”
Deborah Lyons, “Westbrook Among the Classicists: An Unending Conversation”
John W. Welch and Clifford B. Parkinson, “Adding Evidence of Ancient
Near Eastern Influence on the Roman Twelve Tables”
Shabbat shalom,
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Arlette DAVID
Oct 26, 2013, 11:45:44 PM10/26/13
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Forwarded by Dr. Deborah Sweeney:
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:47:02 +0300
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:47:02 +0300
From: Tom Tölle <Toe...@gmail.com>
Date: 15.10.2013
Subject: CFP: Bringing the law back into history. Graduate Conference
- Cambridge 12/13
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. William O'Reilly, Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of History,
University of Cambridge; Tom Tölle, MPhil, PhD-student, Princeton
University
15.12.2013-16.12.2013, Cambridge, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Deadline: 05.11.2013
We cordially invite young historians with an interest in legal
categories in historical analysis to partake in our Graduate Workshop
2013: 'Bringing the law back into history', which will take place on 16
December at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The workshop will provide a forum
to critically engage with the role of law in recent historiography and
to discuss different approaches to legal categories in your own
research.
Legal history witnesses a revival: from historians of early modern
slavery, over those who study political crime or humanitarian
intervention to scholars, who seek new ways to study the history of
empire. The methodological concepts of a more and more border-crossing
cultural history - from 'encounter' and 'translation' to 'hybridity' and
'croisée' - seem to gain inspiration from legal cases. The overlapping
legal spheres of early modern Europe, its contested imperial
viceroyalties and plantations, its rivalling networks of trade, and the
ways in which it sought to impose 'its law' onto a world with its own
dynamic and controversial legal traditions are increasingly becoming
subject of enquiry.
The organizers, Dr William O'Reilly (Cambridge University) and Tom Tölle
(Princeton University) invite contributions by a limited number of
European graduate students for a workshop with plenty of room for
discussion. We would like you to systematically think about the role
that legal knowledge, practices of law-making, the transfer or
translation of legal knowledge, and the definition of deviance and
resistance to these definitions had for the societies under
consideration. We seek to bring together a group of students working on
chronologically and regionally varied areas of expertise to engage with
the question: What effects could bringing the law back into history have
for the profession.
We invite you to explore if and how legal categories can be fruitfully
studied in different areas of enquiry. Papers will be circulated in
advance and presentations limited to 15 minutes. Comments on each paper
will tease out the main implications; discussions between the
contributors compare the cases, while a final panel will summarize the
outcome of a day's work. The workshop is supported by the University of
Cambridge. Travel expenses, accommodation (15-16 Dec), and meals for a
limited number of speakers can be covered.
If you are interested in presenting your research at this event, you are
invited to submit a preliminary title for your paper and an abstract of
c. 500 words by 5 November. The papers for circulation, which can be in
a 'presentation style', should reach the organizers
(tto...@princeton.edu) no later than 9 December and will be distributed
to the group the week before the conference.
We would be delighted to receive your proposals as soon as possible and
thank you in advance for your contributions.
We are very much looking forward to receiving your applications.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Tölle
Please send all emails to:
tto...@princeton.edu
--
Date: 15.10.2013
Subject: CFP: Bringing the law back into history. Graduate Conference
- Cambridge 12/13
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. William O'Reilly, Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of History,
University of Cambridge; Tom Tölle, MPhil, PhD-student, Princeton
University
15.12.2013-16.12.2013, Cambridge, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Deadline: 05.11.2013
We cordially invite young historians with an interest in legal
categories in historical analysis to partake in our Graduate Workshop
2013: 'Bringing the law back into history', which will take place on 16
December at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The workshop will provide a forum
to critically engage with the role of law in recent historiography and
to discuss different approaches to legal categories in your own
research.
Legal history witnesses a revival: from historians of early modern
slavery, over those who study political crime or humanitarian
intervention to scholars, who seek new ways to study the history of
empire. The methodological concepts of a more and more border-crossing
cultural history - from 'encounter' and 'translation' to 'hybridity' and
'croisée' - seem to gain inspiration from legal cases. The overlapping
legal spheres of early modern Europe, its contested imperial
viceroyalties and plantations, its rivalling networks of trade, and the
ways in which it sought to impose 'its law' onto a world with its own
dynamic and controversial legal traditions are increasingly becoming
subject of enquiry.
The organizers, Dr William O'Reilly (Cambridge University) and Tom Tölle
(Princeton University) invite contributions by a limited number of
European graduate students for a workshop with plenty of room for
discussion. We would like you to systematically think about the role
that legal knowledge, practices of law-making, the transfer or
translation of legal knowledge, and the definition of deviance and
resistance to these definitions had for the societies under
consideration. We seek to bring together a group of students working on
chronologically and regionally varied areas of expertise to engage with
the question: What effects could bringing the law back into history have
for the profession.
We invite you to explore if and how legal categories can be fruitfully
studied in different areas of enquiry. Papers will be circulated in
advance and presentations limited to 15 minutes. Comments on each paper
will tease out the main implications; discussions between the
contributors compare the cases, while a final panel will summarize the
outcome of a day's work. The workshop is supported by the University of
Cambridge. Travel expenses, accommodation (15-16 Dec), and meals for a
limited number of speakers can be covered.
If you are interested in presenting your research at this event, you are
invited to submit a preliminary title for your paper and an abstract of
c. 500 words by 5 November. The papers for circulation, which can be in
a 'presentation style', should reach the organizers
(tto...@princeton.edu) no later than 9 December and will be distributed
to the group the week before the conference.
We would be delighted to receive your proposals as soon as possible and
thank you in advance for your contributions.
We are very much looking forward to receiving your applications.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Tölle
Please send all emails to:
tto...@princeton.edu
--
Arlette David
Oct 31, 2013, 3:26:14 AM10/31/13
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Dear Group,
The Society of Biblical Literature announces the
publication of
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Miller, J.L., 2013. Royal Hittite Instructions and Related
Administrative Texts.
Few compositions provide as much insight into the structure of the Hittite state and the nature of Hittite society as the so-called Instructions. While these texts may strike the modern reader as didactic, the Hittites, who categorized them together with state treaties, understood them as “contracts” or “obligations,” consisting of the king’s instructions to officials such as priests and temple personnel, mayors, military officers, border garrison commanders, and palace servants. They detail how and in what spirit the officials are to carry out their duties and what consequences they are to suffer for failure. Also included are several examples of closely related oath impositions and oaths. Collecting for the first time the entire corpus of Hittite Instructions, this accessible volume presents these works in transliteration of the original texts and translation, with clear and readable introductory essays, references to primary and secondary sources, and thorough indices.
Best wishes, |
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