Reflections on the Work of Raymond Westbrook
Sunday, November 22, 9:00-11:30 a.m.
Presider: Richard Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
F. Rachel Magdalene, University of Leipzig / Humboldt University Berlin
Introductory Remarks: Legal Science Then and Now
Deborah Lyons, Miami University (Ohio)
Westbrook among the Classicists: An Unending Conversation
Sophie Démare-Laphont, École Pratique des Hautes Études
From the Bank of the Seine to the Chesapeake Bay: Contrasting Perspectives
on Ancient Near Eastern Law
Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
What Was Codex Hammurabi and What Did It Become?
Anselm C. Hagedorn, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
How Far Does a Legal Koine Extend? Remarks on Westbrook’s
“Common Law” in the Mediterranean
Respondent: Bruce Wells, Saint Joseph’s University
