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Required Reading
- Robert Wenke, "The Origins of Cultural Complexity in Africa", in
Patterns in Prehistory 475-487 (1980)
- John A. Wilson, "Authority and Law in Ancient Egypt", Journal of
the American Oriental Society (1959)
- Aristide Theodorides, "The Concept of Law in Ancient Egypt", in The
Legacy of Egypt (John Richard Harris, ed., 2nd ed., 1971)
- "Edict of Harmheb", in James H. Breasted, 3 Ancient Records of
Egypt (1935)
- "Tomb of Rekmire", in James H. Breasted, 2 Ancient Records of
Egypt (1935)
- "Records of the Royal Tomb-Robberies", in James H. Breasted, 4
Ancient Records of Egypt (1935)
- "The Protests of the Eloquent Peasant", in Ancient Near Eastern
Texts (J.B. Pritchard, ed., 1950)
Recommended Reading
- Cyril Aldred, "More Light on the Ramesside Tomb Robberies", in Glimpses of Ancient
Egypt (John Ruffle et al., eds., 1979)
- S. Allam, "Legal Aspects in the Contendings of Horus and Seth'", in Studies in
Pharaonic Religion and Society in Honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths (Alan B. Lloyd, ed., 1992)
- Rudolf Anthes, "The Legal Aspect of the Instruction of Amenemhet",
16 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 176 (1957)
- John Baines, "Literacy in Ancient Egyptian Society", 18 Man
572 (1983)
- Ellen Dailey Bedell, Criminal Law in the Egyptian Ramesside Period, unpublished
Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 1973
- Aylward M. Blackman, "Oracles in Ancient Egypt", 11 Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 249 (1925)
- G.P.F. van den Boorn, "Wd-ryt and Justice at the Gate", 44
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1 (1985)
- G.P.F. van den Boorn, The Duties of the Vizier: Civil Adminstration in the Early New
Kingdom (1988)
- A. de Buck, "The Judicial Papyrus of Turin", 23 Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 152
(1937)
- J. Capart, A.H. Gardiner and B. van de Walle, "New Light on the Ramesside
Tomb-Robberies", 22 Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 169 (1936)
- Jaroslav Cerny, "The Will of Naunakhte and the Related Documents", 31 Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology29 (1945)
- Robert C. Ellickson and Charles DiA Thorland, "Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt,
Israel", 71 Chicago-Kent Law Review 321 (1995)
- C.J. Eyre, "Crime and Adultery in Ancient Egypt", 70 Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 92 (1984)
- Alan H. Gardiner, "A Lawsuit Arising from the Purchase of Two Slaves", 21 Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology 140 (1935)
- Alan H. Gardiner, The Inscription of Mes: A Contribution to the Study of Egyptian
Judicial Procedure (1905)
- J. Gwyn Griffiths, "Isis as Maat, Dikaiosune, and Justitia", in Hommages a Jean Leclant,
vol. 3 (etudes isiatiques) (Catherine Berger et al. eds., 1994)
- T.G.H. James, Pharoah's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt (1984) (esp.
chapters 2,3)
- David Lorton, "The Treatment of Criminals in Ancient Egypt", 20
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 2 (1977)
- A. McDowell, Jurisdiction in the Workman's Community of Deir el-Medina,
unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvia, 1987
- Richard A. Parker, A Saite Oracle Papyrus from Thebes (1962)
- T. Eric Peet, The Great Tomb-Robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty (1930)
- P.W. Pestman, "The Law of Succession in Ancient Egypt", 20 Journal of the Economic
and Social History of the Orient 2 (1977)
- P.W. Pestman, Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt (1961)
- Kurt Pfluger, "The Edict of King Haremhab", 5 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 260
(1946).
- J. Pirenne, Histoire des institutions et du droit prive de l'ancienne Egypte (1932-5)
- J. Pirenne and A. Theodorides, Droit egyptien (1966)
- Gay Robins, "The Economic and Legal Position of Women", in Women
in Ancient Egypt (1993)
- Nili Shupak, "A New Source for the Study of the Judiciary and Law
of Ancient Egypt: 'The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant'", 51 Journal of
Near Eastern Studies 1 (1992)
- Diodorus Siculus, On Egypt (Edwin Murphy, trans., 1985)
- H.A. Szubin & Bezalel Porten, "Royal Grants in Egypt: A New Interpretation of Driver 2",
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies 15 (1994)
- Stephen E. Thompson, "The Anointing of Officials in Ancient
Egypt", 53 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 15 (1994)
- Vincent Tobin, "Ma'at and Dike: Some Comparative Considerations of Egyptian and Greek
Thought", 24 Journal of the American Research Center of Egypt 113 (1987)
- Raphael Ventura, "More Chronological Evidence from the Turin Papyrus", 42 Journal of
Near Eastern Studies 271 (1983)
- Russ VerSteeg, "Law in Ancient Egyptian Fiction", 24 Georgia
Journal of International and Comparative Law 37 (1994)
- S.P. Vleeming, "The Days on Which the Knbt Used to Gather", in Gleanings from
Deir el-Medina (R.J. Demaree and J.J. Janssen eds., 1982)
- John A. Wilson, "The Oath in Ancient Egypt", 7 Journal of Near
Eastern Studies 129 (1948)
Suggestions for new Readings are always
appreciated.