Code Of Hummurabi :: Hummurabi Code of Law

History is the past, which for the most part can not be scientificately proven. The material goal of History is to rediscover past. A dramatic error happens when past is rediscovered from our own bias that is from the way we see it. Even certain artifacts and works pf literary works that we have left from earlier civilizations can be interpreted in several different ways, or misinterpreted to a certain extend or entirely. ordinarily interpretation or even misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism, where different communities have an already set up establishment of certain norms based on their own believes, traditions, social, legislative, and personal values and ethics from which they judge other foreign communities. When considering other societies, it is usually a difficult task to view other demesne without any observer prejudices. Each world, our and their can evoke its own realities that are more or less comparable from unity period to another, or from one culture to another. One of the obvious misinterpretations, discussed in this paper, took place considering historical document scripted by king of Mesopotamia.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 structure of regimen and society. Hammurabis Code- A law Code or a set of royal decisions As written in Mesopotamia The Mighty Kings, (p26), the code consists if 282 laws that are grow 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 just 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 form of conditional s entence 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 demote 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.