This book investigates the law enforcement system of Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BC).

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.

The first detailed description of when and how the police may use force under the international law of law enforcement.

How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic g

What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in

Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshap

In Persecution in 1 Peter, Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of persecution in 1 Peter, situ

Law’s Political Foundations explains the development of the two basic systems of public and private law and their historical transformations. Examining the hi

Drawing on a wide variety of source material from art archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws Jewish and Christian religious texts and anci

Expanded from the author's dissertation--University of Chicago, 1999.