The Laws of Hammurabi At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions

Pamela Barmash teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and has served as director of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies there. She is the author of Homicide in the Biblical World, the co-editor of Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations, and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law.

Introduction
Chapter One: The Stela of the Laws of Hammurapi and the Representation of Political Power
Chapter Two: Royal Legitimization Through the Establishment of Justice
Chapter Three: The Laws of Hammurabi as a Royal Inscription
Chapter Four: Scribes and Statutes
Excursus: Scribes and Scribal Education
Chapter Five: Adoption in the Laws of Hammurabi
Chapter Six: The Legal Authority of the Laws of Hammurabi
Chapter Seven: The Afterlife of the Laws of Hammurabi: The Continuation of Scribal
Improvisation Outside of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Commentaries in
Mesopotamia
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Bibliography