'The Laws of Hammurabi'

'Do Hammurabis laws still live on today in the raw bea? Hammurabi has gaind so many laws that include death, any(prenominal) sort of amputation of a body part, or something that was painful. Majority of those laws were actu wholey useful to him so Hammurabi could keep eerything under(a) control in Mesopotamia, provided without delay in the modern day universe of discourse do we really need all these painful and crustal laws?\n\nWho was Hammurabi and what diversity of laws did he create? Hammurabi was a Babylonian extensive power from 1894-1595 B.C. He was an out remain firming convention in primeval Mesopotamia of early antiquity, he is especially cognise as a lawgiver. He was the sixth ruler of the pay off dynasty. In 1894 B.C Hammurabi genetic a commonwealth of moderate size, unmatched of a effect of Mesopotamian city-states. Hammurabi was the author of the statute that bears his name. (Gale d. , 2014)Some codes and laws published by Hammurabi deal with a var iety of subjects, marriage, inheritance, slavery, and debt. And although he was concerned with holding stuff in swan in his officedom, this was not his further reason for reservation these laws. In the prologue to Hammurabis codes, the king declared his relish to establish justice. and at the end he declared that by means of his enactments, the strong shall not injure the weak, and the orphans and widows shall stimulate justice. Although this was not a new archetype earlier compilations of laws are known as Hammurabi. Yet they stand out as one of the great humanitarian figures of history. (Gale d. , 2014) Hammurabi had 282 laws and they were approximately justice, which Hammurabi the wise king established, Hammurabi is a ruler, who is a father to his subjects, who holds the lyric of Marduk, in reverence, who had achieved conquest for Marduk over the unification and south. Who rejoices the heart of Marduk, his lord, who has bestowed benefits for ever and ever on his subj ects, and has established order in the land. Hammurabis laws were instead reasonable and fair, but not for mod... '