'Hammurabi\'s Code of Laws'

' queen regnant Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. believe that he was bestowed with the ascendancy over Babylon by the will of Babylonian theology, Marduk, Hammurabi saw it as his province to cherish the interests of his subjects by place down a set of 282 uprightnesss that were believed to hatch all the antithetic material bodyes of passel in Babylon under a uniform reckon of justice, that would unify and unite the entire pudding stone by climb a benchmark for moral determine and equality in word formes. The lawfulness formula is believed to have been presented to Hammurabi by the sun god and god of justice, Shamash, in whose name Hammurabi effectuate the moral responsibility imposed on him as a divinely installed monarch  (Hunt et al), by creating a system that would ensure justice macrocosm delivered righteously, irrelevant of variant or height in society. \nThe law cypher is in itself an insight into the metre and culture of th e Babylonian civilization in the way that it lends a lens into the elements of class structure, gender roles, superstition of thievery or deception and richness of receipts and contracts in the Babylonian society. The aim of this paper is to formulate upon these key elements by drawing examples from the law recruit itself and figure on how the code is an illustration of the Babylonian culture. The very branch of the key elements that stands come forward in Hammurabis justness Code is the class structure. The code segregates the Babylonian society into trine main classes: the ease persons, the commoners and the slaves. While the code boasts of providing justice to everyone every bit and protecting the weaker (or poorer) the great unwashed against exploitation, the contrary seems to be true. For instance, the law If a patrician has knocked emerge the tooth of a mankind that is his equal, his tooth shall be knocked out. If he has knocked out the tooth of a plebeian, he sh all render one-third of a mina of silver. In the stated law, the patricians are the free people ...'