Hammurabi\'s Code of Laws

King Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. believe that he was bestowed with the authority everyplace Babylon by the will of Babylonian deity, Marduk, Hammurabi saw it as his indebtedness to protect the interests of his subjects by displace down a particularise of 282 practice of fairnesss that were believed to treat all the variant degreees of commonwealth in Babylon below a uniform enroll of justice, that would unify and consolidate the built-in empire by put a benchmark for chaste values and equality in differentiatees. The law code is believed to deport been presented to Hammurabi by the sun god and god of justice, Shamash, in whose note Hammurabi fulfilled the moral responsibility imposed on him as a divinely installed monarch  (Hunt et al), by creating a system that would guarantee justice macrocosm delivered righteously, irrelevant of class or stature in edict. \nThe law code is in itself an taste into the time and culture of the Babylonian civilization in the focussing that it lends a lens into the elements of class structure, gender roles, intolerance of stealth or deception and wideness of receipts and contracts in the Babylonian society. The purpose of this paper is to contrive upon these key elements by swig examples from the law code itself and exuberant on how the code is an exercise of the Babylonian culture. The very jump of the key elements that stands kayoed in Hammurabis Law Code is the class structure. The code segregates the Babylonian society into three main classes: the liberal persons, the commoners and the slaves. While the code boasts of providing justice to everyone equally and protecting the weaker (or poorer) people against exploitation, the contrary seems to be true. For instance, the law If a patrician has knocked out the tooth of a man that is his equal, his tooth shall be knocked out. If he has knocked out the tooth of a plebeian, he shall pay threesome of a mina of sil ver. In the stated law, the patricians are the open people ...