Ancient text
Code of Hammurabi
A Babylonian legal collection inscribed on a stele, comprising a prologue, a body of case law in conditional form, and an epilogue.
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Document
Source- Culture
- Babylonian
- Language
- Akkadian
- Approximate date
- Eighteenth century BCE
- Corpus
- ane
- Review status
- in_review
Relationships to biblical passages
Interpretationlegal parallelSimilarity only
Both belong to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of casuistic legal formulation, and both treat questions of liability across households. The correspondence recorded here is one of legal form and subject matter within a shared regional tradition.
legal parallelSimilarity only
The question of whether liability extends beyond the offender to members of their household is addressed in both traditions. CodexTrace records the shared question, not a derivation.
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