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Hammurabi

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hammurabi , fl. 1792-1750 BC, king of Babylonia . He founded an empire that was eventually destroyed by raids from Asia Minor. Hammurabi may have begun building the tower of Babel (Gen. 11.4), which can now be identified with the temple-tower in Babylon called Etemenanki. His code of laws is one of the greatest of ancient codes. It is carved on a diorite column, in 3,600 lines of cuneiform; it was found (1902) at Susa and is now at Paris. The code, which addresses such issues as business and family relations, labor, private property, and personal injuries, is generally humanitarian. One severe... Read more

Hammurabi
Hammurabi Hammurabi (reigned 1792-1750 B.C.) was a Babylonian king. One of the outstanding...the code which bears his name. Nothing is known of the early life of Hammurabi. His name, sometimes written Khammurapikh, is West Semitic, and he was... Read more

Code of Hammurabi
...Babylonian laws, developed during the reign ( 1792–50 ) of Hammurabi . It consists of 282 of his legal decisions, collected toward...the code is preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Code of Hammurabi Code of Hammurabi Code of Hammurabi Read more

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