Author: Claude Hermann Walter Johns
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Category : Jewish law
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Hammurabi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781973773627
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Languages : en
Pages : 80

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The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901.

Author: Cyrus Adler
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: William Lansdell Wardle
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A comparison of the religion and traditions of Babylon with those of ancient Israel.

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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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Includes section "Book reviews."

Author: Morris Jastrow (Jr.)
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Includes section "Reviews of recent literature."

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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Arno Poebel
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: David P. Wright
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195304756
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.