The Code of Hammurabi 
KING OF BABYLON ABOUT 2250 B.C. 
Edited by ROBERT FRANCIS HARPER, 
Professor of the Semitic Languages and Literatures in the University of Chicago 
PART I, SECOND EDITION 
| The best proof of the popularity of a book is its continued sale. If a work meets a popular 
demand, public interest in it is cumulative ; the narrow circle of its first friends widens and soon 
extends over states and countries. This has been our experience with The Code of Hammurabi. 
The collection of these ancient laws of Babylon presents material of the greatest value to those 
interested in social institutions, and contains many laws that in a modified form appear today ey 
our statute books. Students are giving this code most serious considerathes; and many are undertak- 
dng acritical and eee ore of the details. The edit that we have put out is ae “a 
Stch us it ains raphed text of the original ae : a transliteration, and a 
aes Gigi all ‘ati indexed and arranged in convenient form 
OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO 
f ISTORIANS, because the habits, customs, and traditions of the ancient sarge 
las are crystallized in these laws; the direct light thrown upon social conditions makes it pos- 
Sible to piece together a very sitestalery narrative leading up to the promulgation of the code, 
JURIST 'S will find a wealth of material bearing on all sorts of civil and criminal contro- 
ies ; also curious survivals of primitive customs, and many sections showing transitional stages 
m legal procedure. 
MISTS will fina very elaborate provisions bearing on property rights, wage,, 
interest, sine transportation, eae building, and many other interesting 
ns.* 
nd rents 
fatures indicative of advanced economic conditi 
; CIOLOGISTS will be surprised at the advanced stage and complexity 
f social institutions in ancient Baby] egges was well established and hedged about 
ith many elaborate legal provisions. The status of master and servant is carefully 
ikfined The position of husband and wife is pec at great length. The army 
highiy organized. 
B.G, 
P HEOLOGIANS will find in this code many similarities to that Scie 
0 israel and also marked contrasts. The two codes are written in the sa 
Merary style and present not a few cases of actual verbal agreement. re su 
i. Mitical comparison of the two will be found very interesting. ret 
me a copy of 
: Part I of 
} Asecond part will be published in the fall of the present year, at $2.00 The Code 
: net, « oom mtaining a critical examination of the Code of Hammurabi and a . Hiendrad 
4 ‘comparison with ores of Moses, by President William R. Harper, ° ammurabi 
| University of Chica ted Dr. Ri 
5 Francis Harper. 
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