How Mesopotamian scribes learned to write legal documents
Subtitle: a study of the  Sumerian model contracts in the Babylonian collection at Yale University
By: Walter R. Bodine ; with a foreword by William W. Hallo
Contributors: Yale Babylonian Collection
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780773435377
Subjects: Contracts (Sumerian law); Sumerian Law; Language; Sumerian language; Texts
Description: Consists of an edition of six  tablets from the Yale  Babylonian Collection with an introduction to the Sumerian model  contracts --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Past study; title: Texts; title: Commentary; title: Genre; title: Conclusion.