‘If A Man’
The Code of Hammurabi Considered: 2225 B.C.
Our oldest written account is of laws.
What do these laws address?
All are from the person of the Monarch.
Five lesser concerns other than power are:
-1. Violence [other than bondage]
-2. False witness
-3. Theft
-4. Bondage
-5. Money
Since theft is so often of goods rather than money, compensation will be counted as “money” only when 1 thru 5 are not present, an…