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Anne W. Stewart. Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 247 pp.

since its initial 2002 publication, Levinson states that he “clarified the analysis of the morphosyntax of cuneiform law” (xi, n. 1). Nonetheless, the study includes a rather peculiar claim (substantially unchanged from the original article) about the use of Akkadian verb forms in the Laws of Hammurabi (LH). According to this claim, just as the Covenant Code alternates between כ י and א ם to differentiate between conditions and subconditions, LH alternates between preterite verb forms and perfects in the protasis of laws to mark conditions and subconditions, respectively (24, esp. n. 73). The evidence, however, simply does not bear this out. For example, LH §9 gives a main condition and §§10–12 give related subconditions, but in the protasis of LH §9, the verbs are all perfect forms. Even so, this claim is marginal at best to Levinson’s overall arguments, and when scrutinizing these arguments, one is hard-pressed to find fault. Instead, one can only feel admiration for how the author with his typical aplomb manages to draw from a variety of subdisciplines to produce a stimulating pair of case studies.