About 4,000 years ago a man named Hammurabi, the ruler of the Kingdom of Babylonia, created the “Code Of Law”. The code of law is 282 laws carved in a stele (A tall pillar shaped, stone). Each of the laws were chosen from the God of Justice, Shamash. Was is Just?
Yes they were because of Hammurabi's code of the family laws, property laws, and personal laws.(BGE). Hammurabi’s laws are fair in family law. “If a married lady is caught [in adultery] with another man, they shall bind them and cast them into the water.” (Doc C). “If a man strikes the daughter of a free man and cause her to lose the fruit if her womb, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver...” (Doc D). The laws in family law are fair. They all are proving a point. Say a woman was found with another man when she is already married to a different man. The man and the woman would both be punished by getting tied up and basically thrown into water to drown to death. well that is what they are doing. Drowning them to death. It will show the rest of the citizens not do what that “couple” did. Same if a man strikes the daughter of a freeman and kills her child they have to pay 10 shekels of silver. Well now you have to pay for killing a girl’s child. Once you do kill now you have to pay and …show more content…
“If a man has knocked out the eye if a freeman, his eye shall be knocked out.” (Doc C). “If he has knocked out the eye of a slave ... he shall pay half his value.” (Doc C). These are fair because say if you knock out the eye of freeman something will probably happen to you too. That might sound crazy today but that is their state of mind back then. Hammurabi just wanted to show a point that if you do it to someone else it will happen to you too. The same law implies for the slave, but instead of having the eye knocked out like the slave, he has to pay half of the slave’s value. Today that is very harsh that is back then about 3,000 years ago, they didn’t do the same to slaves as the free
Yes they were because of Hammurabi's code of the family laws, property laws, and personal laws.(BGE). Hammurabi’s laws are fair in family law. “If a married lady is caught [in adultery] with another man, they shall bind them and cast them into the water.” (Doc C). “If a man strikes the daughter of a free man and cause her to lose the fruit if her womb, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver...” (Doc D). The laws in family law are fair. They all are proving a point. Say a woman was found with another man when she is already married to a different man. The man and the woman would both be punished by getting tied up and basically thrown into water to drown to death. well that is what they are doing. Drowning them to death. It will show the rest of the citizens not do what that “couple” did. Same if a man strikes the daughter of a freeman and kills her child they have to pay 10 shekels of silver. Well now you have to pay for killing a girl’s child. Once you do kill now you have to pay and …show more content…
“If a man has knocked out the eye if a freeman, his eye shall be knocked out.” (Doc C). “If he has knocked out the eye of a slave ... he shall pay half his value.” (Doc C). These are fair because say if you knock out the eye of freeman something will probably happen to you too. That might sound crazy today but that is their state of mind back then. Hammurabi just wanted to show a point that if you do it to someone else it will happen to you too. The same law implies for the slave, but instead of having the eye knocked out like the slave, he has to pay half of the slave’s value. Today that is very harsh that is back then about 3,000 years ago, they didn’t do the same to slaves as the free