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Document Details : Title: Foreign but Fair Subtitle: Legal Disputes of Judeans in the Achaemenid Era Author(s): HOLTZ, Shalom E. Journal: Orientalia Volume: 92 Issue: 2 Date: 2023 Pages: 185-201 DOI: 10.2143/ORI.92.2.3292616 Abstract : Judean litigants are attested in a small group of Achaemenid-era dispute records in Akkadian from Mesopotamia and Aramaic from Egypt. These texts, despite their geographic and linguistic diversity, shed light on the Achaemenid Empire’s administration of justice, as well as on an important aspect of the Judean experience as the Empire’s subjects. Following recent scholarship on marriage, this study identifies ways in which law and ethnicity might have interacted during the adjudicatory process. Although closely associated with the foreign imperial apparatus, adjudication was fair towards Judean subjects. |
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