De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien
A state of questions regarding law in Mesopotamia is necessary for a proper effort at reconstituting the unusual adventure of a small people deprived of acknowledged marks of a political legitimacy in Ancient Near East (land, temple, king). It is in the completing of a literary composition, understo...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
| Published: |
L’Harmattan
2016-05-01
|
| Series: | Droit et Cultures |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3823 |
| _version_ | 1818553673772433408 |
|---|---|
| author | Françoise Smyth |
| author_facet | Françoise Smyth |
| author_sort | Françoise Smyth |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | A state of questions regarding law in Mesopotamia is necessary for a proper effort at reconstituting the unusual adventure of a small people deprived of acknowledged marks of a political legitimacy in Ancient Near East (land, temple, king). It is in the completing of a literary composition, understood as « law », and largely in debt of Mesopotamian juridical tradition, that it claims the territory of its upheld rediscovered identity. Serving a more or less exclusive monotheism from the Vth c. B.c.e on, this writing is corseted by a system of mainly priestly stipulations on the « licit vs illicit » which closes off this threatened identity within diaspora or multiethenic Yehud, under Persian rule. Inside this mighty story itself which locates, carries along, proclaims and contradicts this identitary « law », contra-history, debate or revolt are also expressed until a figure like Job, who has met Egyptian Wisdom, puts on trial the very God meant to sanction this retributive apparatus. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-12T09:28:55Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-36bedb91fcc0487d9bcfc5ba90098d66 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 0247-9788 2109-9421 |
| language | fra |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-12T09:28:55Z |
| publishDate | 2016-05-01 |
| publisher | L’Harmattan |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Droit et Cultures |
| spelling | doaj.art-36bedb91fcc0487d9bcfc5ba90098d662022-12-22T00:28:55ZfraL’HarmattanDroit et Cultures0247-97882109-94212016-05-0171179194De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancienFrançoise SmythA state of questions regarding law in Mesopotamia is necessary for a proper effort at reconstituting the unusual adventure of a small people deprived of acknowledged marks of a political legitimacy in Ancient Near East (land, temple, king). It is in the completing of a literary composition, understood as « law », and largely in debt of Mesopotamian juridical tradition, that it claims the territory of its upheld rediscovered identity. Serving a more or less exclusive monotheism from the Vth c. B.c.e on, this writing is corseted by a system of mainly priestly stipulations on the « licit vs illicit » which closes off this threatened identity within diaspora or multiethenic Yehud, under Persian rule. Inside this mighty story itself which locates, carries along, proclaims and contradicts this identitary « law », contra-history, debate or revolt are also expressed until a figure like Job, who has met Egyptian Wisdom, puts on trial the very God meant to sanction this retributive apparatus.http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3823AssurBabylonCodesDeuteronomyHammurabiInnana |
| spellingShingle | Françoise Smyth De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien Droit et Cultures Assur Babylon Codes Deuteronomy Hammurabi Innana |
| title | De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien |
| title_full | De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien |
| title_fullStr | De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien |
| title_full_unstemmed | De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien |
| title_short | De Sumer au livre de Job : entre vérité, violence et contrat, ou comment vivre au Proche-Orient ancien |
| title_sort | de sumer au livre de job entre verite violence et contrat ou comment vivre au proche orient ancien |
| topic | Assur Babylon Codes Deuteronomy Hammurabi Innana |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3823 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT francoisesmyth desumeraulivredejobentreveriteviolenceetcontratoucommentvivreauprocheorientancien |