The Code of Hammurabi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Code of Hammurabi write by Hammurabi. This book was released on 2017-07-20. The Code of Hammurabi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901.
The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses
The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses write by William Walter Davies. This book was released on 1905. The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology, and is of paramount interest, not only to the student of the Bible, but also to all those interested in ancient history.
The Laws of Hammurabi
The Laws of Hammurabi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Laws of Hammurabi write by Pamela Barmash. This book was released on 2020. The Laws of Hammurabi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi. His fame and reputation are due to the collection of laws written under his patronage. This book offers a new interpretation of the Laws of Hammurabi. Ancient scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a set of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribesin articulating legal thinking. The tradition that inspired the Laws of Hammurabi continued outside of Mesopotamia. It influenced biblical law and may have shaped Greek and Roman law.
The Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Code of Hammurabi write by Robert Francis Harper. This book was released on 2007-11-01. The Code of Hammurabi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The intention of Ancient Texts and Translations (ATT) is to make available a variety of ancient documents and document collections to a broad range of readers. The series will include reprints of long out-of- print volumes, revisions of earlier editions, and completely new volumes. The understanding of ancient societies depends upon our close reading of the documents, however fragmentary, that have survived. --K. C. Hanson Series Editor
The Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Code of Hammurabi write by Hammurabi. This book was released on 2016-12-29. The Code of Hammurabi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a seven and a half foot stone stele and various clay tablets. The code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" (lex talionis) as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. Nearly one-half of the code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon. Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another. A third of the code addresses issues concerning household and family relationships such as inheritance, divorce, paternity, and sexual behavior. Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently. A few provisions address issues related to military service.The code was discovered by modern archaeologists in 1901, and its editio princeps translation published in 1902 by Jean-Vincent Scheil. This nearly complete example of the code is carved into a basalt stele in the shape of a huge index finger,[4] 2.25 m (7.4 ft) tall. The code is inscribed in the Akkadian language, using cuneiform script carved into the stele. It is currently on display in the Louvre, with exact replicas in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the Clendening History of Medicine Library & Museum at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the library of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches (Dutch: Theologische Universiteit Kampen voor de Gereformeerde Kerken) in the Netherlands, the Pergamon Museum of Berlin, and the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.
