Victor A Hurowitz

Inu Anum īrum: Literary Structures in the Non-Juridical Sections of Codex Hammurabi

Hurowitz, Victor A.. Inu Anum īrum: Literary Structures in the Non-Juridical Sections of Codex Hammurabi In Samuel Noah Kramer Occasional Publications. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1994.

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Old Babylonian use of “ornate rhetorical and structural devices” (1): chiasms, inclusios, and concentric arrangements laid out, along with “a chiastic chassis to the entire” Codex ammurapi (25-31,33,37,40,44,58).  See especially chapter 2.