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Professor
B.A. (Law), Oxford University, 1968
Ll.M., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970
Called to the Bar of England & Wales, 1976
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Yale University, 1982
E-mail: rwestb@jhu.edu
Raymond Westbrook's special areas of interest are ancient law and ancient diplomacy. His research focuses on ancient Near Eastern law and its connections with early Greek and Roman law. He is the editor of A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (Brill, 2003), a project with 20 specialist contributors covering all known legal systems of the region from the beginning of legal records until the Hellenistic period (28th to 4th century BCE). His most recent foray into the Graeco-Roman sphere is a study of the homicide law of Drakon of Athens, to be published in Symposion 2007.
In July 2005, in collaboration with Professor Raymond Cohen of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. Westbrook co-organized “Swords into Plowshares” – a colloquium that brought together biblical historians and political scientists to examine the political meaning of Isaiah’s irenic vision, in the prophet’s own time and today. The edited papers of that conference have now been published under the title Isaiah's Vision of Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations: Swords into Plowshares (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Professor Westbrook has been at Johns Hopkins since 1987.
Publications
Course Materials
Festival Stories
The Travels of Rabbi Binyamin Me-tudela
Prince Rassam's Banquet: A Lover's Cookbook
2007 Iwry Video Lecture "Justice in Genesis"
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