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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia - Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon (Hardcover)
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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia - Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon (Hardcover)
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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical
evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While
many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around
the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that
more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of
detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this
book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and
detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment
for coercion became adaptable to a variety of circumstances and
goals, which shaped the contexts and practices of imprisonment.
With time, religious ideology was attached to imprisonment. In one
literary text, a prisoner was refined like silver and given new
birth in the prison. The misery of imprisonment gave rise to lament
through which a criminal could be ritually purified and restored to
a right relationship with their personal god. Beyond this literary
perspective, this work reconstructs how imprisonment and religious
ideology intersected with the judicial process and explores the
evidence related to the reasons behind imprisonment, the treatment
of prisoners, and the evidence related to the lengths of their
stays.
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