Hammurabi Vs Exodus

This essay will explore the differences between Hammurabi’s code of law and laws from the book of Exodus. The laws were similar but had their true differences when it came to punishments. Hammurabi’s code consists of laws that mostly deal with commercial transactions, slavery, marriage relationships, and theft. These laws contained “if” statements and various types of punishments that were inconsistent. As for the book of Exodus, it was the total opposite. In this document, they describe the laws to be more of regulations in the form of divine commands placed down by god through Mosses. Hammurabi’s code and the laws handed down by Mosses were all in fair judgment. With this similarity, one can assume the good intentions behind these laws.
Mosses emphasizes duties to God as the root for humanity, arguing the fact that God followed some type of rule to help abolish the true criminals, thus cleansing the people to become the more suitable citizens. Because of this, the laws were made intended to help create make a superior world in the eyes
That is one thing that can be argued that was not fair with the laws placed by Hammurabi. There were various degrees of punishments based on where you were in the social order. The people were trialed to prove their innocence or guilt but the trials were determined to be painful and dangerous. Trials for a citizen would be held just for being accused of a crime. For example one law states, “If that woman did not take care of her person, but has entered the house of another, they shall prove it against that woman and throw her into the water” (24). Basing someone’s innocence to whether or not they can survive being thrown into water is not what Mosses believed in, but what Hammurabi thought would be an exceptional law. Hammurabi wasn’t led by a god that had this vision of