'Hammurabi\'s Code of Laws'

' business leader Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. accept that he was bestowed with the government agency over Babylon by the will of Babylonian graven image, Marduk, Hammurabi saw it as his certificate of indebtedness to nourish the interests of his subjects by position down a set of 282 fairnesss that were believed to palm all the divers(prenominal) family unites of lot in Babylon under a uniform recruit of justice, that would unify and consolidate the entire conglomerate by backing a bench mark for moral value and equality in menagees. The legal philosophy inscribe 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 crowned head  (Hunt et al), by creating a system that would fasten justice existence delivered righteously, irrelevant of caste or meridian in society. \nThe law recruit is in itse lf an insight into the sequence and culture of the Babylonian civilization in the way that it lends a lens into the elements of class structure, gender roles, superstition of thievery or deception and sizeableness of receipts and contracts in the Babylonian society. The drive of this paper is to gird upon these key elements by drawing examples from the law code itself and solve on how the code is an illustration of the Babylonian culture. The very foremost of the key elements that stands kayoed in Hammurabis jurisprudence Code is the class structure. The code segregates the Babylonian society into terce main classes: the impeccant persons, the commoners and the slaves. While the code boasts of providing justice to everyone evenly and protecting the weaker (or poorer) batch against exploitation, the contrary seems to be true. For instance, the law If a patrician has knocked step up the tooth of a universe that is his equal, his tooth shall be knocked out. If he has k nocked out the tooth of a plebeian, he shall give in one-third of a mina of silver. In the stated law, the patricians be the free people ...'