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This chapter analyzes the modalities of the composition of the Code of Hammurabi and the manner it was used in Babylonia during its author's time and after. It suggests that this code clearly belongs to a religious ideology of the exercise of kingship as indicated in the beginning of the prologue. This chapter also investigates how the code of law was formed and identifies the purposes it served.
Keywords: Code of Hammurabi; Babylonia; religious ideology; kingship; code of law
Chapter. 5135 words.
Subjects: Classical History
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