He is just as likely to bring in Ben Bernanke and Ralph Nader as Hammurabi and Cato the Elder. |
The period for debt slavery was, however, confined to the years of Hammurabi. |
Hammurabi the Babylonian law-giver was portrayed with horns on a stele, and so forth. |
Around 1760 BC, King Hammurabi further developed Babylonian law, by codifying and inscribing it in stone. |
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi called for an eye for an eye long before the Israelite law did. |
The provisions in the laws of Hammurabi are as simple and matter-of-fact as possible. |