Citation Needed - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Query: 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
Citation Needed
Quoted text:
“The two terms are mutually complementary. … An immutable aspect of cosmic order, kittum is semantically the same as Biblical ‘emet (from *’amint), the original force of which still survives in the common loanword ‘Amen.’ The independent function of a ruler, whether divine or human, is confined to misharum, that is, just and equitable implementation.”
What is the source of this quotation? We did not find it in Ephraim A. Speiser, “Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 107, No. 6 (December 1963), pp. 536–541, which was our suspected citation but had a different year than what Hudson wrote in the chapter body (1953).
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