The Code of Hammurabi - Couverture souple

Hammurabi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1545042772 ISBN 13 : 9781545042779

Editeur : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The Code of Hammurabi is one of the most important monuments in the history of the human race. Containing as it does the laws which were enacted by a king of Babylonia in the third millennium B.C., whose rule extended over the whole of Mesopotamia from the mouths of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates to the Mediterranean coast, we must regard it with interest. But when we reflect that the ancient Hebrew tradition ascribed the migration of Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees to this very period, and clearly means to represent their tribe father as triumphing over this very same Hammurabi (Amraphel, Gen. xiv. 1), we can hardly doubt that these very laws were part of that tradition. At any rate, they must have served to mould and fix the ideas of right throughout that great empire, and so form the state of society in Canaan when, five hundred years later, the Hebrews began to dominate that region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1545042772
• ISBN 13: 9781545042779
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible