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The Code Of Hammurabi (2009)

by Hammurabi(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1434404986 (ISBN13: 9781434404985)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Wildside Press

review 1: Not a book you would read for enjoyment, but still a good to read if you are majoring in world history or criminal justice. The code is basically an eye for an eye, while someone are pretty much the same now as it was before, I just felt like some crimes deserved more punishment. Like if a son where to hit his father the son would have his fingers cut off, but if a man where to hit a woman which caused a miscarriage he would have to pay her money, which to me that man deserves to have his fingers cut off. But anyway as I said not a book you pick up for enjoyment but it is an enlightening read.
review 2: I have not tried other translations yet, but this is an easy and understandable read for anybody interested in some of the world's oldest recorded laws. I highl... morey recommend this book if you're interested in the evolution of popular morality. The Hammurabi version of "fairness" is extremely interesting too - for example, a poor man is fined less than a rich man in cases of ill fortune or even law breaking (they even paid less for the doctor, erm, bronze lancet treatment), yet if a poor man injures a rich man he will pay a much heftier fine than he would if he had injured another poor man. A very strange and informative read! I will update this review if I find any complementary literature, because the laws don't mean much on their own without an understanding of the culture of these people. If anybody else wants to provide suggestions I'd really appreciate it. less

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