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The Beginnings of Law
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31 January 2027
LAW / Legal History, Rechtsgeschichte, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament, Altes Testament
Geboren 1965; 1996 Promotion (Dr. theol.), Universität Zürich; 1998 Habilitation, Universität Zürich; Professor für Hebräische Bibel und Antikes Judentum an der Universität Zürich.
Lida Leonie Panov (Herausgegeben von)
Geboren 1986; Studium der Theologie in Zürich und Jerusalem (Dormitio); 2013-15 Forschungsaufenthalte an der Tel Aviv University; 2018 Promotion, Universität Zürich; 2017-19 pastorale Ausbildung und Gemeindedienst am Zürichsee; 2025 Habilitation; derzeit Leitung eines SNSF-Ambizione-Forschungsprojekts an der Universität Zürich.
1. Introduction
2. Law and Legalism: Terminological and Conceptual Questions
Dylan Johnson: Lawgiving in Mesopotamia: The Advent of Legalism in Intellectual History - Kristin Kleber und Anna Kirchhefer-Lauber: Ancient Mesopotamian Law in Legal History - Bridging the Gaps. On the Potential of Inter- and Multidisciplinary Legal-Historical Research - Peter Altmann: What Does It Mean for Torah to Be Law in the Hellenistic Period?
3. Towards an Entangled Legal History of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean
Sophie Démare-Lafont: Rome and Babylon: An Impossible Legal Dialogue? - Reinhard Achenbach: Law in the Pentateuch and Legal Authority in Yehud during the Achaemenid Period - Sandra Lippert: Egyptian Jurisprudence in the Late and Hellenistic periods (7th-1st centuries BCE). How Legal Theory was Taught and Applied - Joachim Friedrich Quack: Roman-Period Egyptian Hieratic Fragments as Evidence of Pre-Roman Norms and Regulations?
4. Anthropology of Law
Jan Dietrich: Autonomous Agency in Archaic Israel and Greece: When Law Differs from Myth - Bernard Levinson: Why Origins Matter: The Enduring Relevance of Deuteronomy's Constitutional Monarchy
5. Law as Subtext in Non-Legal Contexts
Pamela Barmash: Hullaballoo Over Jeremiah: Shouting Match or Trial? - Lida Panov: Contract Law in Biblical Legal Narratives: Wage Agreements and Purchase Contracts in Gen 30:25-43 and Jer 32:6-15 - Bruce Wells: Legal Conundrums in the Narratives of Genesis
6. Synthesis
Fernanda Pirie: General Reflections on the Contributions