Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. Slaves and Households in the Near East (Laura Culbertson, University of Chicago) Section One: Early Mesopotamia 2. Slavery in Private Households toward the End of the Third Millennium B.C. ( Hans Neumann, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster) 3. A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium B.C. (Laura Culbertson, University of Chicago) 4. Domestic Female Slaves during the Old Babylonian Period (Andrea Seri, University of Chicago) Section Two: The Islamic Near East 5. Preliminary Remarks on Slaves and Slave Labor in the Third/Ninth Century Abbasid Empire (Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University) 6. An Empire of Many Households: The Case of Ottoman Enslavement (Ehud R. Toledano, Tel Aviv University) Section Three: Second and First Millennium Empires 7. Neither Slave nor Truly Free: The Status of the Dependents of Babylonian Temple Households (Kristin Kleber, Freie Universitat Berlin) 8. Slavery between Judah and Babylon: The Exilic Experience (F. Rachel Magdalene, Universitat Leipzig; and Cornelia Wunsch, University of London) 9. Household Structure and Population Dynamics in the Middle Babylonian Provincial "Slave" Population (Jonathan S. Tenney, Loyola University New Orleans and University of Copenhagen) Section Four: Response 10. Slaves and Households in the Near East: A Response (Indrani Chatterjee, Rutgers University)