Reviews for The Code of Hammurabi
Review - Code of Hammurabi, The
A person who could swim could get away with a lot in Babylon.
Reviewed by Roger on 1998-10-20 16:20:08
The Code of Hammurabiby Hammurabi | |
| Category: |
"World History - Political" |
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| Pages: | 41 |
| Year of Publication: | 1750 BC |
| Date Added: | 10/20/1998 |
| Date Read: | 10/20/1998 |
| Notes: | Of the several law codes surviving from the ancient Middle East, the most famous after the Hebrew Torah is the Code of Hammurabi, sixth king of the Amorite Dynasty of Old Babylon. It is best known from a beautifully engraved diorite stela now in the Louvre Museum which also depicts the king receiving the law from Shamash, the god of justice. This copy was made long after Hammurabi's time, and it is clear that his was a long-lasting contribution to Mesopotamian civil ization. It encodes many laws which had probably evolved over a long period of time, but is interesting to the general reader because of what it tells us about the attitudes and daily lives of the ancient Babylonians. |
| My Rating: | 6 |