'Hammurabi\'s Code of Laws'

' might Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. believe that he was bestowed with the authorization over Babylon by the will of Babylonian paragon, Marduk, Hammurabi saw it as his right to defend the interests of his subjects by lay down a set of 282 jurisprudences that were believed to small-armage all the diverse categoryes of state in Babylon under a uniform computer ordinance of justice, that would unify and consolidate the entire empire by setting a benchmark for moral value and equality in grades. The law computer code is believed to have been presented to Hammurabi by the sun god and god of justice, Shamash, in whose name Hammurabi finish the moral responsibility imposed on him as a divinely installed crowned head  (Hunt et al), by creating a system that would justify justice being delivered righteously, irrelevant of come apart or top in society. \nThe law code is in itself an insight into the judgment of conviction and culture o f the Babylonian civilization in the way that it lends a lens into the elements of class structure, gender roles, bigotry of thievery or deception and greatness of receipts and contracts in the Babylonian society. The calculate of this paper is to puzzle upon these key elements by drawing examples from the law code itself and voluptuary on how the code is an illustration of the Babylonian culture. The very graduation exercise of the key elements that stands break in Hammurabis honor Code is the class structure. The code segregates the Babylonian society into three main classes: the guiltless persons, the commoners and the slaves. While the code boasts of providing justice to everyone evenly and protecting the weaker (or poorer) tidy sum against exploitation, the contrary seems to be true. For instance, the law If a patrician has knocked push through 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 s hall liquidate one-third of a mina of silver. In the stated law, the patricians argon the free people ...'