Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East

Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9789004494053
ISBN-13 : 9004494057
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Book Synopsis Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East by : Daniel Snell

Download or read book Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East written by Daniel Snell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal.


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