The Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi (reign 1792-1750 B.C.). The code governed the people living in his fast-growing empire. By the time of ...

Sometime around 1780-70 B.C., the Babylonian King Hammurabi promulgated the now famous Code of Hammurabi, covering both civil and criminal law. The code is said to have informed both Jewish and ...

The Amorite ruler Hammurabi (unknown–1750 B.C.), crowned king of Babylon around 1792 B.C., was both an avid warrior and a shrewd administrator who honored the traditions of Sumer, Akkad, and other ...

Barmash (Homicide in the Biblical World), director of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies at Washington University, takes an illuminating and original look at the Laws of Hammurabi, “the first ...

Examining the history of the law is an important way to understand our current human circumstance. In "The Law Book," Michael H. Roffer, attorney, associate librarian, and professor of legal research ...

Israeli archaeologists say they have found two 3,700-year-old clay tablets that appear to contain legal pronouncements similar to the Code of Hammurabi and the biblical "tooth for a tooth" rule. The ...

It is highly unlikely that a person with a law degree and a former state attorney general actually thinks that law didn't exist on Earth before the estimated lifetime of Moses (1391-1271 BCE). He ...