Prisons In Ancient Mesopotamia

Author : J. Nicholas Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192666345

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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment for coercion became adaptable to a variety of circumstances and goals, which shaped the contexts and practices of imprisonment. With time, religious ideology was attached to imprisonment. In one literary text, a prisoner was refined like silver and given new birth in the prison. The misery of imprisonment gave rise to lament through which a criminal could be ritually purified and restored to a right relationship with their personal god. Beyond this literary perspective, this work reconstructs how imprisonment and religious ideology intersected with the judicial process and explores the evidence related to the reasons behind imprisonment, the treatment of prisoners, and the evidence related to the lengths of their stays.

Author : J. Nicholas Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192849618

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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia by J. Nicholas Reid Pdf

Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment for coercion became adaptable to a variety of circumstances and goals, which shaped the contexts and practices of imprisonment. With time, religious ideology was attached to imprisonment. In one literary text, a prisoner was refined like silver and given new birth in the prison. The misery of imprisonment gave rise to lament through which a criminal could be ritually purified and restored to a right relationship with their personal god. Beyond this literary perspective, this work reconstructs how imprisonment and religious ideology intersected with the judicial process and explores the evidence related to the reasons behind imprisonment, the treatment of prisoners, and the evidence related to the lengths of their stays.

Author : Stephen Bertman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195183641

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Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman Pdf

Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate man's understanding of the ancient world. This illustrated handbook describes the culture, history, and people of Mesopotamia, as well as their struggle for survival and happiness.

Author : John T. Whitehead,Mark Jones,Michael C. Braswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781437755473

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Exploring Corrections in America by John T. Whitehead,Mark Jones,Michael C. Braswell Pdf

Exploring Corrections in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America. In addition to providing complete coverage of the history and structure of corrections, it offers a balanced account of the issues facing the field so that readers can arrive at informed opinions regarding the process of corrections in America. Each chapter is enhanced by an outline, "what you need to know," internet links, photos, boxes, "ethics focus," discussion questions, and further readings.

Author : Tobias Brandner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630870881

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Beyond the Walls of Separation by Tobias Brandner Pdf

Beyond the Walls of Separation is an essential and easy-to-read guidebook for chaplains and volunteers working in the context of prison, and for all those who are professionally or through family links related to those in prison. The book tells the story of what life behind bars is, and how inmates experience transformation through Christian faith: People at the crisis points of their life, where they are shattered, and where little is left of what made them, may experience life as fragile and as a transparent filter for the mysterious. Yet they also may experience God's life-giving presence. Love, expressed in forgiveness--against all odds, against all merits and previous experiences--lies at the root of many stories of transformation that emerge from prison. The book guides visitors to approach inmates without condescension, with an awareness of the social dimension of power and inequality, and with sensitivity to the suffering and alienation that individual prisoners experience. The many years of prison ministry in different cultural contexts and with inmates from all nations have taught the author that Christ does not need to be brought to prison through visitors, through evangelistic events, or through Christian outreach. He is already powerfully present in prison.

Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108484107

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Ancient Legal Thought by Larry May Pdf

"Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--

Author : Earl Andersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1341893672

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Hard Place to Do Time by Earl Andersen Pdf

Author : Margalit Fox
Publisher : Random House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984853868

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The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time. FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine.”—The New York Times Book Review Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom. A gripping nonfiction thriller, The Confidence Men is the story of one of the only known con games played for a good cause—and of a profound but unlikely friendship. Had it not been for “the Great War,” Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives. Margalit Fox brings her “nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality” (Kathryn Schulz, New York) to this tale of psychological strategy that is rife with cunning, danger, and moments of high farce that rival anything in Catch-22.

Author : Robert J. Pellegrini,Susan Jean Meyers
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015029542084

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Psychology for Correctional Education by Robert J. Pellegrini,Susan Jean Meyers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39076002407117

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Anchor Bible Dictionary: O-Sh by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Noel Freedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:49015002846450

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The Anchor Bible Dictionary: O-Sh by David Noel Freedman Pdf

Contains over six thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about developments and issues associated with the study of the Bible, covering people and places, versions of the Bible, methodologies of Bible scholarship, and historical and archaeological subjects, and includes illustrations, cross-references, and bibliographies.

Author : Alain Delattre,Marie Legendre,Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386549

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Authority and Control in the Countryside by Alain Delattre,Marie Legendre,Petra Sijpesteijn Pdf

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.

Author : Kent F. Schull
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748677696

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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire by Kent F. Schull Pdf

Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire.

Author : Elmer Hubert Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Corrections
ISBN : UOM:39015003660811

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Crime, Correction, and Society by Elmer Hubert Johnson Pdf

Author : Peter I. Bogucki
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : UCSC:32106019292843

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Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World by Peter I. Bogucki Pdf

Contains alphabetically arranged entries, from adornment to crime and punishment, that provide information about culture and society in the ancient world and includes photographs and maps.