Endnote 5 – The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?

For the Laws of Hammurabi, sections 116, 214 and 252. For Mari, see G. Boyer, Archives Royales de Mari VIII (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1958), p. 23; and M. Van De Mieroop, Archiv für Orientforschung 34 (1987), 10, 11.