Debt and Indebtedness at Emar

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5015-2180-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 630 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)

This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, students, libraries of the Ancient Near East, economic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Viano, Maurizio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Maurizio Viano, Universität Turin, Italien.

Maurizio Viano, University of Turin, Italy.