# Raymond Westbrook

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'''Raymond Westbrook''' (1946– 23 July 2009) was a scholar of the legal systems of the ancient Near East. He was born in England.

== Education ==
Westbrook studied law at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), and earned a master's degree in law from the [Hebrew University](/source/Hebrew_University). He studied [Assyriology](/source/Assyriology) at Yale, and then practised and taught law in England and Wales before finishing his dissertation in 1982 entitled ''Old Babylonian Marriage Law'', for which Yale awarded him the Ph.D.

== Career ==
Westbrook was a scholar of ancient Near Eastern law. Westbrook was a lawyer. 
Westbrook was a lecturer in law and biblical studies from 1983 to 1987. 
Westbrook then joined the faculty of [Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University), where he served until his death, at which time he held an endowed chair at Hopkins: the W.W. Spence Professor in Semitic Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neareast.jhu.edu/bios/raymond-westbrook/index.html |title=First Last &#124; Department of Near Eastern Studies &#124; Johns Hopkins University |publisher=Neareast.jhu.edu |date=2009-07-23 |accessdate=2015-07-01}}</ref>

He wrote or edited books on topics of the law in the ancient Near East, becoming a scholar on this topic until his death from cancer in 2009 at age 62.<ref>{{cite web|author=Print version |url=http://gazette.jhu.edu/2009/08/03/raymond-westbrook-62-authority-on-ancient-near-east-law/ |title=Raymond Westbrook, 62, authority on ancient Near East law : Johns Hopkins University – The Gazette |publisher=Gazette.jhu.edu |date=2009-08-03 |accessdate=2015-07-12}}</ref> Many of his writings are collected in the posthumous two volume work: ''Law from the Tigris to the Tiber The Writings of Raymond Westbrook''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Law from the Tigris to the Tiber|editor1=Bruce Wells|editor2=F. Rachel Magdalene|isbn=978-1575061771}}</ref>

He wrote a two-volume reference, "The History of Ancient Near Eastern Law," a 1,200 page, tome which he edited, in addition to writing about 200 pages on his own.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law|author=Raymond Westbrook|isbn=9781417502226}}</ref> He contributed in free seminars.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1991/04/18/biblical-archaeological-seminar-is-being-held/ |title=Biblical archaeological seminar is being held ' |publisher=Articles.baltimoresun.com |date=1991-04-18 |access-date=2015-07-01}}</ref> He also produced a bibliography of his subject.<ref>Raymond Westbrook, ''Law in the Ancient World: Model Syllabus and Sources''</ref>

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==External links==
* {{Cite web |title=Raymond Westbrook, 1946-2009 |url=http://neareast.jhu.edu/bios/raymond-westbrook/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701023334/http://neareast.jhu.edu:80/bios/raymond-westbrook/index.html |archive-date=1 July 2015 |website=[Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University)}}

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