Code of Hammurabi

Today I will be blogging on some of the paragraphs in the core of Hammurabi.

2) The first thing i see when I look at this is that "justice" is often based off of luck, but I think that they believed it had more to do with the divine than luck. 

5) In this paragraph, it shows that the judicial group were highly important, and judging was a big deal in the country. The judges weren't above the law, but instead were held highly accountable to the correct judgment of other citizens.

9) This helps with two things in the country. Thievery and false accusations. If a person were to buy a stolen item, this law protects them from being in trouble for an accidental purchase, and the thief gets highly punished for his actions.

26) This law helps and hurts the country. It discourages people from not going to war because they could lose their main way of life, and be "put on the streets", but in another way it kind of helps someone to be a mercenary. The hired person could easily become the owner of a fairly nice house.

32) This law seems strange at first until you read the last phrase. Basically, if a captured person can buy his freedom, but only with his house, he shall not give his house, but the community will pay for his freedom. This law is intriguing because it makes no sense that the community would have to pay for a captured person, but The reason why he shall not give his house is beacause that was like their identity. I was like giving your debit card or driver's license. I am not quite sure how I feel about this one.