摘要
The last 15 years or so have seen a marked increase in the publication of handbooks,manuals,lexica and encyclopaedia on various academic disciplines and sub-disciplines.The consequence is that overview articles on ancient Egyptian law have also proliferated.Obviously,the scope and content of such articles and chapters depend on the one hand on the expectations,specifications and word count parameters given by the editors,and on the other on the individual take of the author.With five chapters1 by Richard Jasnow and Joe Manning that add up to almost 240 pages,Egyptian law fully takes its place alongside other Near Eastern legal systems in the chronologically ordered Handbook of Oriental Studies(HdO)double volume edited by Ray Westbrook,and the only reproach that one might find with the quasi-exhaustive handling of the subject is that the citations favour secondary literature over text editions and thus complicate access to the primary sources.
