Speaking of divorce, women were allowed to leave their husbands if they had just cause. Additionally, women could in fact own property if there husband’s bequeathed it upon them. Hammurabi's Code unveils a lot about Babylonian culture, but what does it tell us about the man himself and his job as king? First of all, the prologue and epilogue of the work stress that Hammurabi has the supreme divine authority to be king and that he is the sole person righteous and just enough to hand out judgment and to decide how everything must be ordered. Once examining his laws, Hammurabi’s claim that he is uber just does not seem too farfetched. As stated previously, he preserves justice with his laws and not just equality. Nothing, however, can really prove to us if he did in fact have divine right to be king, but the fact that he and perhaps a large number of his citizens believed he was brought to rule by the will of the gods let us know the Babylonians were people of great faith which was instilled heavily in their way of life, even in their
Speaking of divorce, women were allowed to leave their husbands if they had just cause. Additionally, women could in fact own property if there husband’s bequeathed it upon them. Hammurabi's Code unveils a lot about Babylonian culture, but what does it tell us about the man himself and his job as king? First of all, the prologue and epilogue of the work stress that Hammurabi has the supreme divine authority to be king and that he is the sole person righteous and just enough to hand out judgment and to decide how everything must be ordered. Once examining his laws, Hammurabi’s claim that he is uber just does not seem too farfetched. As stated previously, he preserves justice with his laws and not just equality. Nothing, however, can really prove to us if he did in fact have divine right to be king, but the fact that he and perhaps a large number of his citizens believed he was brought to rule by the will of the gods let us know the Babylonians were people of great faith which was instilled heavily in their way of life, even in their