Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationships
The excerpt, Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationship, came from the book, Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. The book was published in 2010 and the excerpt comes from page 36. The document is important because it gives us a view of some of the different family laws Hammurabi instructed his people to follow. The scholarly book, Social Thought: From Hammurabi to Comte, seems to agree with the same statements in the scholarly source being used. Both sources agree that Hammurabi’s laws were created to protect the whole family in every aspect of the marriage.
Jerry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler are the authors of the source from the past, Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationships, …show more content…
Both sources revealed different laws Hammurabi conducted for the families to follow. Chambliss’ book contains information about Hammurabi’s character and attitudes towards his people and laws. Presenting a rounded view of him, it was designed primarily as a textbook of King Hammurabi. Hammurabi was referred to as a warrior who changed the Middle East. His laws dealt with all aspects of everyday life. They were made to establish fairness, justice, and to protect the weak from the strong. The Hammurabi law provided husbands with marital rights while also giving him protection from the wife’s faults in the marriage. Husbands were allowed to make majority of decisions, while the laws were still protecting the entire family unit. Despite this protection, children and women were not fully protected under the law. For example, if a child were to disobey (especially a son), the child could have his hands cut off if he were to try and strike his father, or become disinherited. The child was allowed to make one mistake under the law, but if the child were to make two mistakes, the father could punish him or her in any way he liked. If the family was in debt perhaps, the husband was allowed to sell his wife and/or children to pay off the expenses. Although the husbands had top …show more content…
I believe both documents are very accurate and are very well put together. Due to the accuracy, this helps give the learners of the world today the satisfaction in knowing what really happened during Hammurabi’s rule. Both sources provided very much information, but the source from the past provided more examples of the different family laws. If these sources had been inaccurate, then more than likely no one would have known specifically which family laws Hammurabi wanted his people to
The excerpt, Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationship, came from the book, Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. The book was published in 2010 and the excerpt comes from page 36. The document is important because it gives us a view of some of the different family laws Hammurabi instructed his people to follow. The scholarly book, Social Thought: From Hammurabi to Comte, seems to agree with the same statements in the scholarly source being used. Both sources agree that Hammurabi’s laws were created to protect the whole family in every aspect of the marriage.
Jerry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler are the authors of the source from the past, Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationships, …show more content…
Both sources revealed different laws Hammurabi conducted for the families to follow. Chambliss’ book contains information about Hammurabi’s character and attitudes towards his people and laws. Presenting a rounded view of him, it was designed primarily as a textbook of King Hammurabi. Hammurabi was referred to as a warrior who changed the Middle East. His laws dealt with all aspects of everyday life. They were made to establish fairness, justice, and to protect the weak from the strong. The Hammurabi law provided husbands with marital rights while also giving him protection from the wife’s faults in the marriage. Husbands were allowed to make majority of decisions, while the laws were still protecting the entire family unit. Despite this protection, children and women were not fully protected under the law. For example, if a child were to disobey (especially a son), the child could have his hands cut off if he were to try and strike his father, or become disinherited. The child was allowed to make one mistake under the law, but if the child were to make two mistakes, the father could punish him or her in any way he liked. If the family was in debt perhaps, the husband was allowed to sell his wife and/or children to pay off the expenses. Although the husbands had top …show more content…
I believe both documents are very accurate and are very well put together. Due to the accuracy, this helps give the learners of the world today the satisfaction in knowing what really happened during Hammurabi’s rule. Both sources provided very much information, but the source from the past provided more examples of the different family laws. If these sources had been inaccurate, then more than likely no one would have known specifically which family laws Hammurabi wanted his people to