Through out Hammurabi’s Code and the Torah are many laws and rules regarding specific actions. Many are common to both the Babylonian and Biblical law compendium. These include prohibitions against false testimony, murder and rape, criminal behavior and laws dealing with theft and slavery management. In many cases, even the details in regard to slavery are similar in text. For example, in the Code of Hammurabi, death is the punishment for the mistreatment of a slave or slave woman in any unjustly manner (25). Much less, the Torah adds saying slaves are to be treated “as servants, rather than as slaves” (68). Slaves are to be treated with human dignity and respect, and not to be made property or treated cruelly. Conversely, the Ancient Near
