Episteme as Configurative Process: Episteme between Theory and Practice in Cuneiform Law (A01)

Subject Area Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Term from 2012 to 2024
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397
 

Project Description

Cuneiform law is documented through systematised collections of epistemic juridical knowledge, on the one hand, and documents pertaining to contemporary legal practise, on the other. The project investigates the relation between law collections and contemporaneous legal documents by way of two case studies dealing with the mid-third millennium ‘Reform Texts of Urukagina’ and the late-second millennium ‘Middle Assyrian Laws’, respectively, examining in how far historical contingency as well as formal and socio-political configurative processes determine the formation of systematised juridical knowledge.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of SFB 980:  Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
Applicant Institution Freie Universität Berlin
Project Head Professorin Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum