Adultery in the Ancient near East From the standpoint of the customs and traditions and the old laws

Rasheed Alsalihi, Salah

	Adultery in the Ancient near East From the standpoint of the customs and traditions and the old laws
JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
Article 1, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-195
Author
Salah Rasheed Alsalihi
Abstract
Through specialized studies in the history of the old article, I found a lot of cultural influences in Iraq have a clear echo of the civilization of the Ancient Near East, especially Egypt, Anatolia and the mini without the Levant (Syria and Palestine) and this is due to trade relations, human migrations, including the cultural triangle (Egypt- Hittite- Babylon and Assyria), and then found that similar customs and traditions with them, and therefore has a single side of a civilized social exchange is dealing with the wife of her husband's betrayal, and what is the position of customs, traditions and laws within this social crime, rejected by communities that period of time from the late Bronze Age, has been noted during the compilation of research material that the Iraqi veterans talked about this situation in the laws that the laws of both Laws Sumar (ur-Namu –Lipt Ashtar), or the laws of Semitic (Ashnuna - Hammurabi), said this case demonstrates the presence, but not necessarily was absolutely rampant! It is clear from the legal materials that the situation was strictly the direction of treason punishable by death, the wife and the lover is punished either by death or him decide what the right of the wife become unfaithful if her husband is also covered by King may consider a resolution direction, and I have not seen the text deals with the same old Iraqi full of the issue but found it was a simple text of adultery, which suggests to me that they mentioned avoided or minimized by the reference to it, as well as in Egypt, the punishment has been harsh against the treacherous murder of his wife, dismembered, and with the same formula mentioned in the Hittite laws articles One of the first reading of the impact of Iraq are clear Clearly, the Hittite laws, except in the case of the expansion of the exemption unfaithful husband from his wife, he should put a sign on his head so as to distinguish it everywhere, and also the death treacherous wife and her lover is her husband's death if they requested it.Fortunately, I found the text of a multi-reference to the situation of a wife accused of adultery and that the parties to the case are the kings of small states in Syria (kingdoms Ugaret and Amurru) are two of the Hittite kingdom and its capital Hatusa, addressed that issue the Code, which date back to (1225 BC. M) to approximately , and highlighted it as a specific example of the position of all parties to the actions taken to address them so as not to break out of war between the two king Todhalia fourth inductive indispensable in such problems as long as the Assyrian enemy lurks for access to the coasts of Mediterranean, have been put forward in this example the case of marriage between two families Dynasties and the blessing of kings and their Lrod Hatti , inductive, and the results of the events after the divorce and the confiscation of property and abdicated the throne, and, naturally, did not apply the death penalty because it is the wife of the king's daughter, and her uncle is the King, inductive, and therefore the ability of financial fine gold. It draws attention in the search, the offense and the subordination of the blame lies at the head of the wife with her lover, who believed with her Which was considered his wife is unfaithful hit him, and the marriage and provided for the codification of the contract between the parties to preserve the truth at the expense of the rights of the husband the wife, and there are a lot of legal materials in which the wife indicted adultery, whether by the neighbor, for unknown reasons by a husband or even get rid of his wife and its legal obligations direction or the direction of his children, also noted that the death was a test and the river are common in the legal materials is subject to the wife Aimed at the water to see her innocence of the charges against against adultery, and this relied on the valuable sources in Arabic and foreign to enrich the subject between you, and God accepted you well ... And peace ......

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