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12.22.2004
Code of Laws
 
EAWC Anthology: Hammurabi's Code of Laws

132. If the "finger is pointed" at a man's wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband.


Pre-dates the Ten Commandments. Also claimed to be from God.

When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his illustrious name, made it great on earth, and founded an everlasting kingdom in it, whose foundations are laid so solidly as those of heaven and earth; then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.


.. and a little traditional marriage:

163. If a man marry a woman and she bear him no sons; if then this woman die, if the "purchase price" which he had paid into the house of his father-in-law is repaid to him, her husband shall have no claim upon the dowry of this woman; it belongs to her father's house.


Watch people blink when you ask them about Hammurabi. Ask them about the Epic of Gilgamesh... or anything that doesn't reside within the narrow scope of history that we all seem to know.

Even better, ask people why its colder in the winter than in the summer.

Ask them how a Television works.

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