Transcription of The Code of Hammurabi
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The Code of Hammurabi Page 1 THE CODE OF Hammurabi Edited by Steve Straub The Federalist Papers Project The Code of Hammurabi Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .. 3 BABYLONIAN LAW--THE CODE OF Hammurabi .. 5 THE CODE OF Hammurabi ..18 CODE OF LAWS ..19 THE EPILOGUE ..38 The Code of Hammurabi Page 3 INTRODUCTION During the first two decades of his forty-two year reign ( ), Hammurabi fortified several cities in northern Babylonia. In 1764, Babylon defeated the coalition of Elam, Subartu and Eshnunna. By 1762, Hammurabi claimed to have "established the foundations of Sumer and Akkad, a phrase borrowed from Sumerian royal hymns to express the ideal of pan-Babylonian rule. With the conquest of Mari in 1759, virtually all of Mesopotamia had come under Babylonian rule. Hammurabi then created his code of laws, which consists of 282 laws, in the year 1750 BC.
The actual laws range from public to private matters, with humane approaches to human ... ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain. The king is a benevolent autocrat, easily accessible to all his subjects, both able and willing to protect the ... The universal habit of writing and perpetual recourse to written contract even ...
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