Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Abbreviation and Transliteration Conventions -- Introduction -- A. Neo-Babylonian Legal and Administrative Texts: Their C ontents and Provenance -- B. Litigation Records: The Study of the "Tablet Trail" -- C. Studies of Litigation Records from Earlier Periods -- D. Need for the Present Study -- E. Methods -- PART I: FUNCTIONAL TYPOLOGY OF TEXTS -- Chapter One Decision Records -- 1.A The Legal Function of the Decision Record -- 1.B The "Royal Judges" Styles of Decision Records -- 1.C The "Eanna" Styles of Decision Records -- 1.D Comparison of the "Royal Judges" and the "Eanna" Styles -- 1.E Non-Stylized Decision Records -- Chapter Two Other Text-Types Including the Resolution of Disputes -- 2.A Conclusions of Disputes -- 2.B Memoranda Including Decisions -- 2.C Settlements -- Chapter Three Preliminary Protocols and Records of Statements in Court -- 3.A Preliminary Protocols -- 3.B Memoranda of Proceedings -- 3.C Records of Statements in Court -- 3.C.1 Accusatory Depositions -- 3.C.2 Depositions of Testimony -- 3.C.3 Memoranda of Depositions -- 3.C.4 Sworn Depositions -- Chapter Four The dabäbu- and quttû - Type Summonses -- 4.A Summonses to Argue (dabäbu) a Case -- 4.B Summonses to End (quttû) a Case -- Chapter Five Text-Types Calling for Evidence -- 5.A Summonses to Establish a Case (kunnu) -- 5.B Guarantees for Testimony -- 5.C Penalties Pending Evidence -- 5.D Summary Discussion of Texts-Types Calling for Evidence -- Chapter Six Text-Types Ensuring an Individual's Presence -- 6.A Summonses to Present (abäku) an Individual -- 6.B Guarantees for an Individual's Presence -- Chapter Seven Other Text-Types -- 7.A Other Summonses -- 7.B Promissory Oaths -- 7.C Injunctions -- PART II: NEO BABYLONIAN ADJUDICATORY PROCEDURE.

Chapter Eight The Adjudication of Private Disputes: The "Royal Judges" Decision Records and Other Texts -- 8.A The Scene -- 8.B The Initiation of the Case: dïna gerû and Similar Terms -- 8.C Summoning the Defendant -- 8.D Oral Arguments: dïna dabäbu -- 8.E The Presentation of Evidence: "Establishing the Case" (kunnu) and the Means of Evidence -- 8.F The "Hearing" of Oral Statements: šemû -- 8.G Obtaining Evidence -- 8.H Questioning the Litigants: ša?älu -- 8.I Oaths -- 8.J The Conclusion of the Trial: Deliberation (mitluku) and Decision ( purussû) -- 8.K Adjudicating Authorities: Royal Judges -- 8.K.1 Judges of Neriglissar and Nabonidus in Babylon -- 8.K.2 Judges of Neriglissar and Nabonidus outside Babylon -- 8.K.3 Royal Judges during the Reign of Cyrus and Cambyses -- 8.K.4 Royal Judges after the Reign of Cambyses -- 8.K.5 Royal Judges under Nebuchadnezzar II -- Chapter Nine The Adjudicatory Process in the Eanna -- 9.A The Scene -- 9.B The Initiation of the Case: Accusations -- 9.C Investigative Procedures in the Eanna -- 9.D Summoning in the Eanna -- 9.E The Answer of the Accused Individual: Confession and Counter-Accusation -- 9.F "Establishing the Case": kunnu -- 9.G Questioning and Interrogation: ša?älu and maš?altu -- 9.H Oaths -- 9.I The Decision -- 9.J The Adjudicating Authorities in the Eanna -- Chapter Ten The Neo-Babylonian Tablet Trail in Comparative Perspective -- 10.A The Decision Record -- 10.A.1 The Legal Function of the Decision Record -- 10.A.2 The Form of the Decision Record -- 10.B Settlements -- 10.C Preliminary Protocols and Records of Statements in Court -- 10.D Memoranda -- 10.E dabäbu-Type Summonses -- 10.F Text-Types Calling for Evidence -- Bibliography -- Index of Cuneiform Texts Cited -- Index and Glossary of Akkadian Terms Discussed.

This book presents a text-typology of Neo-Babylonian litigation records in order to describe the adjudicatory process.

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