Code Of Hummurabi :: Hummurabi Code of Law

History is the past, which for the most part after part non be scientificately proven. The real goal of History is to rediscover past. A melodramatic error happens when past is rediscovered from our own bias that is from the way we see it. as yet certain artifacts and works pf literature that we have left from earlier civilizations can be interpreted in several different ways, or misinterpreted to a certain extend or entirely. Usually interpretation or fifty-fifty misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism, where different communities have an already stigmatize up establishment of certain norms based on their own believes, traditions, social, legislative, and individual(prenominal) values and ethics from which they judge other foreign communities. When considering other societies, it is normally a difficult task to view other world without any observer prejudices. Each world, our and their can evoke its own realities that are to a greater extent or less co mparable from matchless period to another, or from one culture to another. One of the obvious misinterpretations, discussed in this paper, took place considering historical scroll written by king of Mesopotamia. Our textbook, Arts and Culture,(p 98) presents Hammurabis figure as a Law Code of king Hammurabi. It was, in unit of ammunition something sooner different from a Code of Laws existing in our judicial and legislative structure of government and society. Hammurabis Code- A law Code or a set of royal decisions As written in Mesopotamia The powerful Kings, (p26), the code consists if 282 laws that are branched at the beginning and end by a prologue and epilogue. The Code touches almost every aspect of everyday manner in Babylonya. As the prologue states, the laws were supposedly written to promote the welfare of the people,to dress just to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong mogul not oppress the weak ( The Human Record, p 12). Furthe rmore, just equal a real Law Code, each law is written in the form of conditional sentence in which the phrase is introduced by a certain condition, if and the consequence follows then. Another fact makes Hammurabis Code so similar to the U.S. Constitutional Law Code is that it follows specific order, consisting of name chapters associated with similar issues. For instance The Administration of Justice chapter is followed by Felons and Victums, which is in turn followed by chapter that talks about Property issues.