{"product_id":"9789042932753","title":"Gods, Kings, and Merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Publications de l'institut du Proche-orient Ancien du Coll\u0026#232;ge de France)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGods, kings and merchants, a way of designating religion, politics and the \n\u003cbr\u003e economy: three spheres which in the modern world are quite distinct, even \n\u003cbr\u003e if they do interact constantly. The aim of this book is to show that their \n\u003cbr\u003e boundaries were far more fluid in the Mesopotamian civilisation: gods \n\u003cbr\u003e could act as money lenders, kings could invoke divine will to refuse \n\u003cbr\u003e extradiction, the dead could serve as a reference for how the living \n\u003cbr\u003e should behave, and wealthy merchants could live in residences modelled on \n\u003cbr\u003e those of kings... This civilisation preceded the \"Greek miracle\" which \n\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Pierre Vernant has quite correctly defined as a \"process of change \n\u003cbr\u003e which led to the emergence, as distinct areas, of the blueprints for the \n\u003cbr\u003e economy, politics, law, art, science, ethics, and philosophy\". In a direct \n\u003cbr\u003e continuation of his earlier book published in 2010, Writing, Law, and \n\u003cbr\u003e Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, D. Charpin here examines in \n\u003cbr\u003e greater depth the situation which existed in Mesopotamia in the first half \n\u003cbr\u003e of the second millennium BC, using texts discovered in numerous archives \n\u003cbr\u003e throughout the entire Near East, especially those found at Mari eighty \n\u003cbr\u003e years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peeters Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53004795609399,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":290.28,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9789042932753","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}