Endnote 4 – The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?

For a summary, see Isaac Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949), p. 117. For detailed commentaries, see A. Falkenstein Die neusumerische Gerichtsurkunden 1 (Munich: Beck, 1956), pp. 88–90; and D.O. Edzard, Sumerische Rechtsurkunden des III. Jahrtausends (Munich: Beck, 1968), p. 87.