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A Fascinating Look at Ancient Mesopotamian Adoption,
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This review is from: Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-Mesu-Lissur (Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 3) (Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 3) (Hardcover)
This book is not an exhaustive study of ancient Mesopotamian adoptions; rather it is a study of a group of related texts many of which deal with adoption. The work contains photographs and hand drawn copies of the texts as well as transliterations and translations of the documents. The work is aimed at a scholarly, rather than a general, audience.
One fascianting fact that emerges from this study is that many adoptions are not adoptions as we would think of them. These adoptions were strictly economic transactions between adult adopters and adoptees and were not designed to add a child to a family. This study is thorough, yet concise and comes highly recomended. |
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Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-Mesu-Lissur (Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 3) (Mesopotamian Civilizations, ... by Elizabeth Caecilia Stone (Hardcover - August 1, 1991)
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