Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The Code of Laws Promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B. C. 2285-2242
Mould and fix the ideas Of right throughout that great empire, and so form the state of society in Canaan when, five hundred years later, the Hebrews began to dominate that region.
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