Stub - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis

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Note that “religion” and “connect” also are found above all with financial debtsVague TextCan you help us make this text less vague?OpenSee All Queries: “obligation” = “Verbindlichkeit.”Key Concept Missing in Chapter BodyThis Key Concept is not discussed in this chapter’s body. Can you help us add it?OpenSee All Queries Wilhelm Eilers suggested a link with the Latin word “lex” (“law”) connected with “ligare” (“connect,” and “legislate”). But Julius Pokorny tied “lex” to “collection,” i.e., of juridical instructions (a collection is something tied together).

Akkadian “hubullulm” meant “rate of interest,” from “habalum” (to fasten, tie, or connect). Note the sign “h/hbl”: “eblum,” cord, Arab “habl.”

So what is Latin, “nexus” legislation. “Nexum” servitude. In fetters.

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Elena Cassin, “Le sceau: Un fait de civilisation dans la Mesopotamie ancienne,” in Annales. Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations (1960), pp. 742–751.

Emile Szlechter, Le Contrat de société en Babylonie, en Grèce et à Rome (Paris: 1947).