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This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian periodspecifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empiresand provides evidence demonstrating that these are among the first to have developed an early form of administrative law.The present study revolves around a particular expression that, in its most common form, reads u a arri iaddad and can be translated as ';he will be guilty (of an offense) against the king.' The authors analyze ninety-six documents, thirty-two of which have not been previously published, discussing each text in detail, including the syntax of this clause and its legal consequences, which involve the delegation of responsibility in an administrative context. Placing these documents in their historical and institutional contexts, and drawing from the theories of Max Weber and S. N. Eisenstadt, the authors aim to show that the administrative bureaucracy underlying these documents was a more complex, systematized, and rational system than has previously been recognized.Accompanied by extensive indexes, as well as transcriptions and translations of each text analyzed here, this book breaks new ground in the study of ancient legal systems
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Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts
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