The Code of Hammurabi (Full Text)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Code of Hammurabi is a law code of ancient Babylon, set down by King Hammurabi around 1,750 BC. The code survives on several large stele and clay tablets, none of which are fully intact so there are occasional lacunae in the text.
Hammurabi's laws are where we derive the expression "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", as these punishments are meted out to atone for the crimes they mirror. This is a common theme of ancient Mesopotamian law, and Hammurabi was no different. What was different about Hammurabi is how fair-minded he is.
Although the laws seem excessively draconian, they are still quite fair. They do, of course, patriarchal and distinguish by class and gender, but slaves and women are given surprisingly even-handed rulings.
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
eawc.evansville...
avalon.law.yale...
Follow Ancient Recitations for extra content on Facebook:
/ ancientrecitations
H E S H O U L D B E P U T T O D E A T H
I kept saying in my head "Wait for it...PUT TO DEATH!"
EXACTLY
You are an idiot
Did you know that the code of Hammurabi was not the first written law? For instance the law of Ur-Namu was created 300 years earlier in Sumer.
Gabriel I am so glad to read and listen about my city I lived in sumer south of Iraq
Ok boomer.
nerd
@@SevenFluffyKittens This is the distinction. It was an attempt to breach classes, to impart rational 'morality' in an accessible way, which then justified punishment.
Source?
I think I just found a new drinking game 🤪🍻🍺🍻🥃🥂
Since I have to study this text for my Ancient Middle East History class, thank you very much, although I have to ask, is this is a recent translation, or one of the earlier ones?
Why is there no law 13? Were the ancient Mesopotamians actually also superstitious about the number?
Rule 13: There shall be no rule 13.
Manny Lenz I'd say it's still a rule in that case ;p
*****
Rule 13) You don't talk about Rule #13.
***** They haven't found all of the laws I think.
Randomness65535 Hammurabi purposefully skipped the number 13 because of its ties as being a symbol of Unholy or bad luck. your AP World History Teacher should mention it when you come across this chapter in the textbook.
hour long video at 3 am fuckin time zones
Excellent!
Those curses at the end are something else. Hammurabi was one malicious little psycho, wasn't he?
+Peter Blease A lot of power and the fear of the unknown can be a dangerous combination.
Not once did I say he was an "idiot". I said he was malicious, and regardless of his social upbringing, he was quite the ruthless individual.
i am iraqi
i proudct Hammurabi
im assyrian, my brother
it looks like during hammurabi's time death penalty was the go-to solution for many problems xD
It would have been a lot harder to house and feed people in a prison back then, I think.
this just got sampled on a podcast produced by WNYC studios. stay tuned for an apology
Lots of handless Babylonians
DraconicLich And dead ones too.
Not enough handless people today.
Sargon is sampled on the "Asking for a friend" podcast on radiolab. Pretty sure it's from this video.
Just heard it today too, anyone know if he signed off on it to them or know about it? Kinda funny considering radiolabs extremely left bend, but i still always listen to it.
Fear of God and righteousness sure doesn't sound evil
05:58 the code of laws
25:01: sorry I’m not trying to point this out to anybody I just need to save it for my homework 📚 😂
Any chance you'll read the Iliad and Odyssey?
Question how do you push an OX and kill it?
I think theres a uhhh a scythe facing up?
Nah im stoopid
I know this is old sorry but im pretty sure they mean work it to death
it's kinda... harsh...
The strong shall not harm the weak... I think they are lying about what babylon was
194 is like oh gosh
#8, if he doesn't have money to repay for taking oxes etc,he shall be put to death is unfair. This is a code unfair to the poor man. Not fair to all people
I belive it was common in that time and area for people to sell themselves as slaves to pay debts
You are the one watching the video. Does your country have a civilization like mine? Yes, I am from Iraq::
No, nothing like that. I wish you the best of luck out there young man.
FIRST!
#108, is ridiculous, if she takes corn that is worth less than the price of a drink, she shall be thrown into water. Maybe the person didn't have all the money. If I interpret it correctly
Especially considering the Mesopotamians wouldn’t have had corn. I think Carl of Swindon here has a bad translation and the word is actually supposed to be grain.
@@duckhawkninja3614 I already replied to your other comment lol but no, corn is correct
@@Panzerfanlol corn is from Americas just like tobacco, they had no idea about corn yet
@@shable1436 same with the other comment, corn in the correct word to refer to cereals ( wheat, barley, oats etc) before the discovery of the Americas especially pre classical period.
"Corn =/= maize.
Anything called corn prior to Europeans landing in the Americas refers to the original meaning of corn, which can refer to anything that can be used to make flour, also oats and barley."
is my other comment lol
You should read Justinian's code of laws next.
Everything shall put to death
Wouldn't it be easier for them to say "everyone shall be put to death, except in these occasions:"? The code would be less than 100 rules long I bet.
They just loved throwing women into water~~
and now we love throwing water into them
Totties need to learn.
They just liked wet women
Learn to swim= Mesopotamian wisdom
The code starts at 6:00.
The crime rate should've been very low when almost everything is punishable by death.
Thank you for this! I played it while I read my textbook that contain's King's translation!! Sped it up by 1.5x and breezed through 40 pages of my assigned reading in under an hour
Wow. Those curses at the end make the ones in fantasy games/novels/movies/etc. seem like a minor inconvenience.
I am Watching this cause I have an exam on it
Me too I am gr 7 in sabis fakhir mergasori
Youhan Hanna same
Guys me too
The reader is so boring I swear
@@youhanhanna248 same I am in grade 7 sabis sharjah and the book is boring af and I have the exam tommorow
same and I am dying
My AP World History told me to read all of the Code of Hammurabi. Ain't nobody got time for that.
🤣
Im doing it in workplace history
I'm doing it for fun while at work lol. Read, listen, same thing 🤷♀️
The ancient world is so fascinating
I find it boring. People talking about places and people nobody knows these days. They weren't very smart, they should have left clear marks and signs that this is the place named this and that and this guy named this and that was here. I was just here because I got curious who this Hamurabi is. Some other video said he ordered the enlightened, skilled and talented people of his kingdom to teach and pass on their knowledge to the younger generation of his kingdom. Even this guys reading it sounds boring.
Aaron Valerio How's that job at McDonalds going? :)
Aaron Valerio They where just like you and me. They all had lives as complex as ours. They loved, cried, felt joy, hoped for a better tomorrow and died; just like we all must. Can’t you take a moment to imagine how their world was, or how you might think of having to live under that law as they did?
Primus Pilus 14 they were doing fine under Hammurabi’s law until “they were PUT TO DEATH”
The executioners were BU SY!
Most crap idiot comment i ever seen here.
You surely is a superficial loser moron.
Read Exodus , there are similar laws after all the Israelites were sojourned there for over 90 years no wonder the laws sound similar he!!!
narrators note: there's no law 13...
I once read that the number 13 was the number of mercy...seems to be lacking in this law code...so makes sense...in a way? haha love these videos sargon
BrutusAlbion What source/text did you "read that the number 13 was the number of mercy[?]" That's very fascinating. ^_^
Elround4 no idea, heard it sometime...so don't hold me to it xD I'm not into the whole numerology thing.
Most ancient cultures weren't merciful or compassionate. The Laws of the Old Testament, are very liberal compared to the other nations back then.
@@MTB214 thread necromancy brother, reviving this old thread like you're dark magician of the forbidden arts.
@@BrutusAlbion haha. I am listening to this for the first time now.
I heard an excerpt from this on a completely unrelated podcast and was like, "wow, that guy sounds exactly like Sargon. Does Sargon have another channel?" And now I'm here
oh dam, long one but ancient Babylon, too good to pass up. I have coffee I am comfy, lets do this.
SARGON!! What an awesome recording. Thank you so much. This was a treat. I should have known you would have done something awesome like this.
shit. If we where still under Hamurabi's law there would be no people left :-s
Interesting how, in some particular aspects, the Babylonians had better laws and customs than the current inhabitants of the same land.
Its ironic
Yeah, the pre Islamic Middle East was better off.
They have better more efficient rules than American society today!
Yes! I've thought this recently
the current inhabitants are the descendants of Babylonians. Only your narrow prejudice against them blind you. By the way, your people when Hammurabi was writing this code were no more than apes living in caves eating each other so be humble my friend.
He did the best he could. He tried to come up with laws for as many situations as possible. Some of the laws are a little ridiculous
Not too bad on adultery and divorce. The man has to give his wife property to take care of her and her children if he wants to divorce her
I'm glad you keep putting these out. I really love them.
It’s a product of its time, but very fair for the most part.
Damn I first read this as Code of Harambe....
With all those lacunas, I'll never know who to execute when someone harms a captain's gifts.
You will have a *BLUE LA[GOON]NA* random chopped hands! 🙃
I am watching this cause for exam from SABIS shehram8x here
Man if we employed this code law today we'd live in a peaceful Utopia. No crime.
Sargon of Akkad!
#130, at least a man can forgive his wife if she cheats on him and she doesn't have to be thrown into the water!!
Damn, so basically you only had to be able to swim and you could get away with anything and get multiple houses..
And #14, you will only "be put to death" if you steal the MINOR son of another, so you were free to steal the older sons...? huh...?
Interesting, how oddly similar this is to modern law texts. Full of the same bullcrap over and over again.
the code of hammurabi was about pimping 304s rt
I'm guessing Babylonian physicians didn't have malpractice insurance
Thank you for this work. I have been enjoying it for some time, and felt I should give credit where it is due.
List starts at 6:00
But then you miss the Akkad name drop :P
thx
Thanks
Is Sargon reading this?
Genesis 26:5 KJV
"Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my *laws*
Prologue: 0:01
The Codes: 5:58
Epilogue: 1:04:43
It is fascinating that we still speak a very similar language to that which Hammurabi spoke "shemsh" is the sun we say in modern Arabic "shemes"
Hammurabi, Sargon, Nimrod, Tammuz, Adoni, Adonis, and Odin/Wotan have many commonalities.
Is that Sargon?
Yes
Lol! Squatters Rights has been around for thousands of years. I thought it was just California
There's one law I see as a little fairer, if a farmers crops fail he shall not pay rent to the owner or corn.
I think it’s funny that he says “humble the proud” but he’s also very egotistical lol
I just watched this whole thing.
The first few minutes of titles sound like Skyrim quests he completed lol
i play this before going to bed... ur voice is really nice
No wonder Jesus was angry! Abraham was born in Ur.
Great work, thanks to all for creating this!
why did they take so serious about sesame and corn
because it was currency and pretty much your everything. if you couldn't pay with coin you could usually pay with your harvest (usually corns for people but you could also get taxed with livestock or their produce)
being hamourabi is simple. You just be the best, quetest, most sexy, most ritch, most heroic, strongst all time of all, king of king withouth crown. Centaurs... Untill time comes someone of us is more massive and takes your centaur or centaurs. Than... Because of this above, not because of it... but being all that, makes all weak, with no purpose when you do it, slaves for your ground. Expand.. slaves for your birthground. They took that, it is repayed in other way and accomplished. Amen. After .... it happens. Not with those slaves... but with Helau of centaur or your centaurs. Hereby the explenation of this.
Gosh this accent is too much I really can't focus
i thought its a profesional full documentary, unfortunately its a static pic and voice telling stories
ben joshua It says full *TEXT* in the title and the channel is called ancient *RECITATIONS* so I don't know what you were expecting.
༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ GLAD I DID NOT LIVE IN THE TIME OF HAMMURABI
Why are you a filthy thief?
who else have to read this for honors world history?
The laws aren't in a numerical order... how is there no law 13?
13 has been considered throughout history as a number of bad luck. Many hotels have been built with no 13th floor. It's a number associated with 13 months in the year and goddess worship, which was off-limits in the new patriarchy.
you should do a reading of hobbes' leviathan
Seems to me like they are the bad ones !!! That defeated the old ones!!!! So we pray to the evil one...( I stopped years ago ,) but I went to a Catholic school...
Hi Sargon!
I am not a native English speaker but my English are at a pretty good level.Unfortunately despite being highly interested in the Ancient Recitation videos i cannot comprehend everything you say.I personally think that you are reading them too fast.I find ideal the reading speed you have in your normal videos when you read an article.Just wanted to let you know.
Greg Makropoulos Ah okay, I didn't think about that. I'll try and read a little slower in future!
***** I think it is more important than his normal videos to be concentrated on listening to him here. It is a quite the different experience and not how most people are used to "reading."
***** Well Argentarii it is not so much that i don't anderstand what he says(i do) it is that as i said i cannot fully comprehend it.In other words it does not have the time to sink in.For example i understood fully "Pericle's Funeral Oration" Because i had already read it in Greek.
To recap it is not a matter of translation but a matter of true understanding what it says and means (since those texts are not simple novels ,they have a deeper meaning,and many times they require interpetation in the context of the ancient civilisation they existed in)
If it is something only i experience then by all means Sargon carry on with the same speed.
***** These recitations have a lot of less common English words, which makes them a bit harder for non-native speakers to understand.
Ancient Recitations To be honest, I'd personally rather have "Sargon just reading cool ancient shit" than an "official audiobook".
But do as you see fit, of course.
Squidbillies brought me here.
That voice? it sounds so familiar where have i heard that voice?................WAIT Carl..Carl Benjamin...Sargon of Akkad mr. "i wouldn't even rape you". is that you? Cause that really sounds like you m8.
By the way, if your not Sargon of Akkad than that's ok i didn't mean to misidentify you. You just really sound like Sargon
@@gregorycarter3194 That _is_ Carl Benjamin, a.k.a Sargon of Akkad. Ancient Recitations was once one of his secondary channels a few years but he has stopped being active on this channel.
@@1685Violin thank you for the confirmation monsieur
let he who by deceit causes others to spend sheckles on the produce (defective or not), of his friends, have the SPJ ethics code branded upon his brow
An hour of that voice = I'm staying up tonight xD
You were getting frustrated when reading this text.
Horus Hawk Pic?
aiot
The real god doesn't need sacrifices!!!....🙏🧘🏻♂️👽
It almost looks like it was malted look on top were it's chipped and look at the service?
The great Sargon
who fell asleep
It’s like North Korea
Leo Le no north Korea has no justice. Here you have an attempt
These laws are better than the current ones in the middle east
Lol how many were alive and not maimed after this?
A man shalt not suffer a feminist to live! ;P
I must’ve misheard 104. Did he say CORN, wool, and oil? That can’t be right
Corn =/= maize.
Anything called corn prior to Europeans landing in the Americas refers to the original meaning of corn, which can refer to anything that can be used to make flour, also oats and barley.
@@Panzerfanlol Bah, British people just need to learn English then.
@@Panzerfanlol Wait wasn’t cuneiform deciphered in the 19th century? Jokes aside that’s well after the Europeans landed in the Americas.
@@duckhawkninja3614 hehe, American moment :')
Can somebody explain to me what a lacuna is, such as number 34 I think number 33 what the heck is a lacuna
Means untranslated/untranslatable or missing word or marking
I was about to go into the Ox hiring business. Not worth it.
Bruh
I’m on 160 38 min. In. This is my bookmark.