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Sara Milstein
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Latest funding
- $53,318
Translating Sex in the Hebrew Bible
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $40,275
Making a Case: The Origins and Legacy of Biblical and Near Eastern Law
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $9,000
The Emergent Legal Mind in the Ancient Middle East
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Translating Sex in the Hebrew Bible
Principal investigators: Milstein, Sara
Keywords: translation of the Bible; history of sex and sexuality; Biblical Hebrew; study of emotions; history of language; Septuagint
Making a Case: The Origins and Legacy of Biblical and Near Eastern Law
Principal investigators: Milstein, Sara
Keywords: biblical law; Mesopotamian law; origins of Deuteronomy; Hammurabi; trial records; legal imagination; legal reasoning; contracts; literary history
The Emergent Legal Mind in the Ancient Middle East
Principal investigators: Milstein, Sara
Keywords: biblical and Mesopotamian law; legal reasoning; development of ancient law; judicial procedure; history of law
Nothing but the Truth? Near Eastern Scribes and the Production of Legal “Opinions”
Principal investigators: Milstein, Sara
Keywords: (1) Mesopotamian law; (2) biblical law; (3) trial records; (4) scribes; (5) Deuteronomy; (6) Code of Hammurabi; (7) storytelling; (8) judicial opinion; (9) law and literature
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