Code Of Hummurabi :: Hummurabi Code of Law

History is the past, which for the most part can non be scientificately proven. The real goal of History is to rediscover past. A dramatic erroneous belief happens when past is rediscovered from our own bias that is from the way we see it. Even indisputable artifacts and works pf literature that we have left from earlier civilizations can be interpreted in several diametric ways, or misinterpreted to a authorized extend or entirely. Usually interpretation or even misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism, where different communities have an already set up establishment of veritable norms based on their own believes, traditions, social, legislative, and personal value and ethics from which they judge other foreign communities. When considering other societies, it is usually a difficult task to view other world without any perceiver prejudices. Each world, our and their can evoke its own realities that are more or less comparable from one period to another, or from one market-gardening to another. One of the obvious misinterpretations, discussed in this paper, took place considering historical document indite by king of Mesopotamia. Our textbook, Arts and Culture,(p 98) presents Hammurabis Code as a Law Code of king Hammurabi. It was, in turn something quite different from a Code of Laws existing in our judicial and legislative complex body part of government and society. Hammurabis Code- A law Code or a set of royal decisions As written in Mesopotamia The Mighty Kings, (p26), the write in 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 life in Babylonya. As the prologue states, the laws were supposedly written to promote the welfare of the people,to cause expert to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong might not oppress the weak ( The Human Record, p 12). Furthermore, just like a real Law Code, each law is written in the trend 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 connatural to the U.S. Constitutional Law Code is that it follows specific order, consisting of separate 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.