Archaeologists Find Ancient Hammurabi-Like Law Code in Israel Clay Tablet

[Jim]

Archaeologists have uncovered for the first time in Israel fragments
of a law code that resemble portions of the famous Code of Hammurabi.

The code was found on two fragments of a clay tablet, and is between
3,700 and 3,800 years old, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said
today in an e-mailed statement.

The fragments “refer to issues of personal injury law relating to
slaves and masters, bringing to mind similar laws in the famous
Babylonian Hammurabi Code of the 18th century B.C. that were found in
what is now Iran over 100 years ago,” the statement said. “The laws
also reflect, to a certain extent, biblical laws of the type ‘a tooth
for a tooth’.”

Read the complete article at --
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-26/archaeologists-discover-ancient-hammurabi-like-law-code-in-northern-israel.html
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