Word: hammurabi
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...Women did better under some of the earlier non-European civilizations. In Babylonia, where Hammurabi's code was promulgated around 1700 B.C., women had certain rights to financial support and could engage in business. The Egyptians allowed women considerable control over property...
...Testament universe of emotion and the New Testament solution that are the irreconcilable poles of her world. This irreconcilability makes for the discomfort and the frustration of her stories. It is not Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church which finally rule Flannery O'Conner's imagination, but Hammurabi and his "Eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth" theology and all the emotional regression and absolutism that that implies...
...started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which predates the 3,700-year-old Code of Hammurabi by more than 150 years. It showed that price controls were used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom and that criminal penalties were carefully spelled out: "If a man bites the nose of another man and severs it, he shall pay a fine of one pound of silver...
...causes of inflation and examine the question of whether full employment and stable prices can exist side by side. Meanwhile, Kathleen Cooil and Isabelle Kayaloff conducted their own interviews and spent hours in the library stacks uncovering, among other things, the fascinating tidbit that the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (circa 2000 B.C.) contained the world's first known system of price control...
...neighboring alcove, there is an imitation of the Hammurabi code. The original, in the Louvre, is black with a bas-relief of Hammurabi, standing, receiving the law from a god. The Semitic Museum's imitation is white. It has a replica of the bas-relief, but the stella itself seemed to be blank. Later, in the light, I saw that the code had been meticulously cast on the copy. At least they had not classified that, I thought...