How To Use Hammurabi In A Sentence
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This state of things was fastened all the more firmly on the people by strong kings such as Hammurabi, who lived about B.C. 2000 and who unified the country under a powerful central government with his own city, Babylon, as the capital.
Hebrew Life and Times
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His successors built it up, and then a brilliant ruler name Hammurabi took power as the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
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Hammurabi Babylonian king 1792–1750 B.C., great warrior and codifier of law, conquered Mari.
The Trojan War
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The biblical patriarch Abraham and Babylonian King Hammurabi lived in what is today Iraq, while Imam Ali, the founder of Shiite Islam, died there.
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Laws regulating financial interactions survive from as early as the eighteenth century BC, when King Hammurabi of Babylon had a number of them written in Mesopotamian stone, or rather rock, namely superhard diorite.
The English Is Coming!
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A conscientious monarch, such as Hammurabi, who describes himself as "a real father to his people," must have been a very busy man.
Early European History
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Nevertheless, the code of Hammurabi marked an advance in ideas of justice.
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Following Hammurabi's death in 1750 B.C., the old pattern emerged once again of Mesopotamian empires fragmenting after the passing of their founders.
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Hammurabi codified the laws
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The following are some laws from the Code of Hammurabi. Subjects of the Babylonian Empire could find a law to govern just about everything they did.
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The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi called for an eye for an eye long before the Israelite law did.
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At that time, the gods Anu and Enlil, for the enhancement of the well-being of the people, named me by my name Hammurabi, the pious prince, who venerates the gods, to make justice prevail in the land, to abolish the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak, to rise like the sun-god Shamash himself associated with dispensing justice over all humankind to illuminate the land.3
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Hammurabi is an examplary figure of the ensi, first to put the Law in written form.
The Stain of Sin
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An interesting sidelight in the enumerated statutes of the Hammurabi code is that there is no statute number 13 - - even in ancient Mesopotamia, 13 was considered to be an unlucky number that should be avoided.
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Iraqis talked about Hammurabi and Ashurbanipal as if they were relatives who just stopped in for tea last week.
Day of Honey
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I can imagine the monolith in a museum, like the code of Hammurabi, which is full of stuff about how grievances about slaves are to be settled, this one crammed with Americana iconography.
In Austin, Texas, I pay my traditional visit to the 10 Commandment monument.
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By Hammurabi's time, in Mesopotamia there had accumulated literally centuries of archived legal decisions and property deeds.
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Islamic law is as anachronistic as Hammurabi's code - yet it IS applicable and applied in many countries.
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At that time, the gods Anu and Enlil, for the enhancement of the well-being of the people, named me by my name Hammurabi, the pious prince, who venerates the gods, to make justice prevail in the land, to abolish the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak, to rise like the sun-god Shamash himself associated with dispensing justice over all humankind to illuminate the land.3
In the Valley of the Shadow
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_ Prof. Clay, it should be added, clings to the older reading, Hammurabi, which is retained in this volume.
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
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Babylon the great and its superior people greet you. I, Hammurabi, desire peace with all my neighbors - even your puny culture.
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Some authorities, including Maspero, [285] are of opinion that the allusion to the Hatti which is found in the Babylonian _Book of Omens_ belongs to the earlier age of Sargon of Akkad and Naram-Sin, but Sayce favours the age of Hammurabi.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
