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Cover: 9788027380121 | Codex Hammurabi | Hammurabi | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | e-artnow
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Codex Hammurabi
Ancient Mesopotamian Law, Royal Justice, and Social Order in the Old Babylonian Kingdom
Taschenbuch von Hammurabi
Sprache: Englisch

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The Codex Hammurabi is among the most consequential legal and literary monuments of the ancient Near East. Inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform on a basalt stele, it combines royal prologue, nearly three hundred casuistic laws, and solemn epilogue. Its style is lapidary and formulaic, shaped by the memorable "if...then" structure of Mesopotamian jurisprudence, yet framed as a moral drama in which justice descends from the gods through the king. The text illuminates property, commerce, family, labor, violence, and social hierarchy in Old Babylonian society. Hammurabi, king of Babylon in the eighteenth century BCE, was not merely a conqueror but a ruler intent on consolidating a diverse realm under a recognizable order. His military and administrative expansion required standards that could project royal authority across cities with differing customs. The Code's prologue presents him as chosen by Shamash, god of justice, suggesting that law, kingship, religion, and political legitimacy were inseparable. This work is essential reading for anyone interested in law, history, political thought, or ancient literature. It rewards modern readers not as a simple ancestor of contemporary justice, but as a complex artifact of power, morality, and social imagination.
The Codex Hammurabi is among the most consequential legal and literary monuments of the ancient Near East. Inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform on a basalt stele, it combines royal prologue, nearly three hundred casuistic laws, and solemn epilogue. Its style is lapidary and formulaic, shaped by the memorable "if...then" structure of Mesopotamian jurisprudence, yet framed as a moral drama in which justice descends from the gods through the king. The text illuminates property, commerce, family, labor, violence, and social hierarchy in Old Babylonian society. Hammurabi, king of Babylon in the eighteenth century BCE, was not merely a conqueror but a ruler intent on consolidating a diverse realm under a recognizable order. His military and administrative expansion required standards that could project royal authority across cities with differing customs. The Code's prologue presents him as chosen by Shamash, god of justice, suggesting that law, kingship, religion, and political legitimacy were inseparable. This work is essential reading for anyone interested in law, history, political thought, or ancient literature. It rewards modern readers not as a simple ancestor of contemporary justice, but as a complex artifact of power, morality, and social imagination.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788027380121
ISBN-10: 802738012X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hammurabi
Übersetzung: King, Leonard William
Hersteller: e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 3 mm
Von/Mit: Hammurabi
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,063 kg
Artikel-ID: 134417280
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