Omitted Text - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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[Omitted text: Perhaps here discuss false weights and measures, and how bad dealing began in the temples because that was where the surplus was concentrated. Later it spread to the economy at large as commerce became more privatized, especially in Mesopotamia’s Mediterranean periphery. Sun-gods of justice, from Utu/Shamash to Zeus/Jupiter.]
Nilsson[1] (1964: p. 189) stated that “Profane law (as well as religious law) had been placed from time immemorial under divine protection. Zeus watches over law and justice, and even after men had begun consciously to shape and alter the positive laws, Zeus sees that justice takes her proper course. For all primitive peoples law has divine sanction and authority.”
There was more text here about false weights and measures, but it was a stub, so we omitted it. Can you help us expand it and work it into the text?
Hudson does address the first part a little later in this chapter, and so it appears to be fulfilled; but the rest needs some help to be realized.
(The first part of the note below that is realized at end of this chapter is executed in the later chapter text: “The practice was for merchants to employ a light weight when lending out money or selling goods, and a heavy one when buying or when collecting debts so as to oblige a larger receipt of silver or other commodities.”)
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Perhaps here discuss false weights and measures, and how bad dealing began in the temples because that was where the surplus was concentrated. Later it spread to the economy at large as commerce became more privatized, especially in Mesopotamia’s Mediterranean periphery. Sun-gods of justice, from Utu/Shamash to Zeus/Jupiter.
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- ↑ Martin P. Nilsson, A History of Greek Religion, 2nd ed. (New York: 1964), p. 189.
