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Zedaqà: Pursuit of Justice and the Instrument of ‘Ius Talionis’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

Daniela Piattelli
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Much has been written on the law of retaliation, both by the specialists who studied the sources of the Ancient Near East that are different from Israel and by those who made Israel the subject of specific studies.

Among those who may be numbered in the first group, we shall quote Cardascia. Among his most recent studies connected with the subject considered, we shall mention: “Réparation et peine dans les droits cunéiformes et le droit romain”, in La responsabilité à travers les âges, ed. par M. Boulet-Santel, (Paris, 1989) 1–45; “La peine dans les droits cunéiformes”, in (1991) 55 Rec. de la Société J. Bodin 37–49. But the most incisive study, on which we shall dwell at length, is: “La place du talion dans l'histoire du droit pénal à la lumière des droits du Proche-Orient ancien”, in Mélanges J. Dauvillier (Toulouse, 1979) 169–183.

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Ancient and Jewish Law
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Israel Law Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1-2 , Winter-Spring 1995 , pp. 65 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1995

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