It takes the average reader 19 hours and 8 minutes to read Law from the Tigris to the Tiber by Raymond Westbrook
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Raymond Westbrook (1946–2009) was acknowledged by many as the world’s foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out Westbrook’s theory of a common legal tradition that spanned the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Israel and even to Greece and Rome. The second volume, Cuneiform and Biblical Sources, provides 28 articles that demonstrate Westbrook’s unique method of legal analysis that he applied to the numerous texts he worked with as an Assyriologist and biblical scholar, from law codes to contracts to narratives. Each volume contains its own comprehensive bibliography, as well as subject, author, and text indexes. Together, they represent the life’s work of one of the most important legal historians of our era.
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber by Raymond Westbrook is 1,109 pages long, and a total of 287,231 words.
This makes it 374% the length of the average book. It also has 351% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 26 hours and 9 minutes to read Law from the Tigris to the Tiber aloud.
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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