منابع مشابه
The Code of Hammurabi: An Economic Interpretation
Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon from 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C 1 . He is much celebrated for proclaiming a set of laws, called the Code of Hammurabi (The Code henceforward). The Code was written in the Akkadian language and engraved on black diorite, measuring about two-and-a-quarter meters. The tablet is on display in the Louvre, Paris. The stone carving on which the laws are written was found ...
متن کاملComparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Covenant Code In comparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Pentateuchal laws
In comparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Pentateuchal laws the fact of the priority of the Code (by well over 300 years) has disposed of some untenable theories and given rise to others. For instance, the old critical view that detailed codes of laws like those found in the Pentateuch are anachronistic for so early a period has been exploded by the discovery. Again, higher critical views whi...
متن کاملSteady State Learning and the Code of Hammurabi
The code of Hammurabi specified a “trial by surviving in the river” as a way of deciding whether an accusation was true. This system is puzzling for two reasons. First, it is based on a superstition: We do not believe that the guilty are any more likely to drown than the innocent. Second, if people can be easily persuaded to hold a superstitious belief, why such an elaborate mechanism? Why not ...
متن کاملThe Longevity of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein
We built a unique dataset of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and 1879, Einstein’s birth year. It includes, among other variables, the vital dates, occupations, and locations of celebrities from the Index Bio-bibliographicus Notorum Hominum (IBN), a very comprehensive biographical tool. Our main contribution is fourfold. First, we show, using for the first time a worldwide, ...
متن کاملthe effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)
cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...
ذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Biblical World
سال: 1904
ISSN: 0190-3578
DOI: 10.1086/473501