Talio Esto: Recherches sur les origines de la formule 'oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent' dans les droits du Proche-Orient ancien, et sur son devenir dans le monde gréco-romain
Jan Rothkamm
Sep 2011 · Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Book 426 · Walter de Gruyter
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This study seeks to clarify the principle of talionic justice beginning with its first historical manifestations in the legal systems of the Ancient Near East. It
attempts to show that talionic justice was not simply a theory of punishment, but also existed as a restorative justice model. The argument for this interpretation of the talionic formula rests on analysis of the salient Biblical verses in the light of the cuneiform models and also utilizes more recent evidence from the Mediterranean region dating from the first centuries of the Christian era. Talionic justice emerges as a complete and constructive principle of justice from the time of its inception, one that cannot be reduced
solely to its punitive elements.
attempts to show that talionic justice was not simply a theory of punishment, but also existed as a restorative justice model. The argument for this interpretation of the talionic formula rests on analysis of the salient Biblical verses in the light of the cuneiform models and also utilizes more recent evidence from the Mediterranean region dating from the first centuries of the Christian era. Talionic justice emerges as a complete and constructive principle of justice from the time of its inception, one that cannot be reduced
solely to its punitive elements.
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Jan Rothkamm, Paris, France.
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