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Professor
B.A. (Law), Oxford University,
1968
Ll.M., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970
Called to the Bar of England
& Wales, 1976
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Yale
University, 1982
E-mail: rwestb@jhu.edu
Raymond Westbrook's special areas of interest are ancient law and
ancient diplomacy. His research focuses on ancient Near Eastern law and its
connections with early Greek and Roman law. He is the editor of A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
(Brill, 2003), a project with 20 specialist contributors covering all known
legal systems of the region from the beginning of legal records until the
Hellenistic period (28th to 4th century BCE). His most recent foray into
the Graeco-Roman sphere is a study of the
homicide law of Drakon of Athens, to be published
in Symposion 2007.
In July 2005, in collaboration with Professor Raymond Cohen of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. Westbrook co-organized “Swords
into Plowshares” – a colloquium that brought together biblical
historians and political scientists to examine the political meaning of
Isaiah’s irenic vision, in the prophet’s own time and
today. The edited papers of that
conference have now been published under the title Isaiah's Vision of Peace in
Biblical and Modern International Relations: Swords into Plowshares
(New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Professor Westbrook has been at Johns Hopkins since 1987.
Publications
Course Materials
Festival
Stories
The
Travels of Rabbi Binyamin Me-tudela
Prince
Rassam's Banquet: A Lover's Cookbook
2007 Iwry Video Lecture "Justice in Genesis"
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