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Author : Stanley Arthur Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi written by Stanley Arthur Cook and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Walter Davies
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses written by William Walter Davies and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 1905 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology, and is of paramount interest, not only to the student of the Bible, but also to all those interested in ancient history.
Author : W. W. Davies
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781944529901
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)
Download or read book CODES OF HAMMURABI & MOSES written by W. W. Davies and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses are thousands-years old documents, evidence of the social structure and rules of ancient civilizations. The Code of Hammurabi is roughly one thousand years older than the Ten Commandments, or Laws of Moses, which were written in 1500 B.C., and is considered the oldest set of laws in existence. Promulgated by the king Hammurabi in roughly 2250 B.C., the Code is a set of rules guiding everyday life, listing everything from punishments for stealing and murder to the prices commanded for animals, products, and services. The famous ""eye for an eye"" maxim comes from the Hammurabi code: ""If a man puts out the eye of an equal, his eye shall be put out."" W.W. Davies' translation of The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses includes an explanation of the laws and their history, a Prologue by the author, the text of the codes with comments, an Epilogue, and a detailed Index. W.W. DAVIES was one of several translators of the famous Code of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses. Little to no information is known about him other than his work with the ancient text. A professor of Hebrew at Ohio Wesleyan University, Davies's translation was from 1905, published by Jennings and Graham in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Author : Stanley Arthur Cook
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290921800
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi written by Stanley Arthur Cook and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Hubert Grimme
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Law of Hammurabi and Moses written by Hubert Grimme and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley A. Cook
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ISBN 13 : 9780243668267
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi written by Stanley A. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Arthur Cook
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298953186
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (531 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi written by Stanley Arthur Cook and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Stanley A. Cook
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497848580
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi written by Stanley A. Cook and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
Author : Hammurabi
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ISBN 13 : 9786057748812
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Code of Hammurabi written by Hammurabi and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a man-sized stone stele and various clay tablets. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" (lex talionis) as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. Nearly one-half of the Code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon. Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another. A third of the code addresses issues concerning household and family relationships such as inheritance, divorce, paternity, and sexual behavior. Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently. A few provisions address issues related to military service. Hammurabi ruled for nearly 42 years, c. 1792 to 1750 BC according to the Middle chronology. In the preface to the law, he states, "Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared Marduk, the patron god of Babylon (The Human Record, Andrea & Overfield 2005), to bring about the rule in the land." On the stone slab there are 44 columns and 28 paragraphs that contained 282 laws. The laws follow along the rules of 'an eye for an eye'.
Author : Davies
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Codes of Hammurabi and Moses with Copious Comments, Index, and Bible References written by Davies and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Walter Davies
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230407753
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses; with Copious Comments, Index and Bible References written by William Walter Davies and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...one seized die of blows or of bad treatment in the house of his distrainer, the owner of the one seized shall bring the merchant to account; if he be the son of a freeborn man, then the son of the merchant shall be put to death; if he be a slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver, and he Ithe distrainer shall forfeit all that he gave as a loan. Here we have a most literal carrying out of the lex talionis, "eye for eye, and tooth for tooth," or rather son for son. We have no evidence that the Hebrew law ever authorized the punishing of a child for the sin of his parent. It is true that children providentially have to suffer physical pain, etc., for the transgression of their parents. (Ex. 20:5 and 34:7.) They suffer by the "self-acting operation of natural laws." In the providence of God the natural ties uniting a family are such that it is difficult for one member to escape entirely the consequenes of another's sins. In ancient times it was not uncommon to punish an entire family for the sins of one member. 115. (See Est. 9:13f.; Dan. 6:25; Herodotus III, 119.) The humane law of the Hebrews contrasts well with the above. We read: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. (Deut. 24:16.) (517.; If a man incur a debt and sell his wife, son, or daughter for money, or bind them out to forced labor, three years shall they work in the house of their taskmaster; in the fourth year they shall be set free. The Hebrew law is as follows: If thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years: then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee....
Author : Stanley Arthur 1873-1949 Cook
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781371015930
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)
Download or read book LAWS OF MOSES & THE CODE OF HA written by Stanley Arthur 1873-1949 Cook and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : W. W. Davies
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333136543
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses written by W. W. Davies and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses: With Copious Comments, Index, and Bible References Weak, so that I might go forth like Shamash' to rule over the Black-haired poop e, to give light to the land, and, like Arm and Bel, promote the welfare of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David P. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199719525
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Inventing God's Law written by David P. Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : W. W. Davies
Publisher : Standard Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781594624896
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses - Archaeology Discovery written by W. W. Davies and published by Standard Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology, and is of paramount interest, not only to the student of the Bible, but also to all those interested in ancient history...
Author : W W B 1848 Davies
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015628168
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)
Download or read book The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses written by W W B 1848 Davies and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Merlin Powis Smith
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584774894
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Origin and History of Hebrew Law written by John Merlin Powis Smith and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith examines the history of Hebrew law from its beginning in the Decalogue to its close in the Priestly Code, considers its relation to contemporary social history and compares it to the Hittite, Assyrian and Babylonian codes. Originally published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1931]. ix, 285 pp. The extensive appendices contain complete translations of the Code of Hammurabi and the Assyrian and Hittite codes, providing a background to the study of Hebrew law. Recommended by Roscoe Pound in the Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence (5th. Ed.) 233. "Professor Smith traces the history of the Hebrew law as it is found in the Pentateuch. He repudiates the Mosaic origin of the contents of the Old Testament with the exception of the primitive Decalogue, the authorship of which he does ascribe to Moses. He discusses the Covenant Code, the Deuteronomic Code, Ezekiel's Code, the Holiness Code, and the Priestly Code; and he presents a new translation of the Code of Hammurabi, the Assyrian Code and the Hittite Code, thus bringing together in one body the records of the legislation of all the great peoples of Western Asia. A vivid background is thus afforded for the study of Hebrew law." --Louis E. Levinthal, 7 Temp. L.Q. 126 1932-1933 J[ohn].M[erlin]. Powis Smith [1866-1932] was a professor of Old Testament language and literature at the University of Chicago. In The Bible: An American Translation (1935), the Old Testament was translated by a group of scholars under his editorship. He was the author of The Moral Life of the Hebrews (1923) and other works.
