THE OLDEST CODE OF LAWS IN THE WORLD

THE CODE OF LAWS PROMULGATED BY
HAMMURABI, KING OF BABYLON
b.c. 2285-2242

TRANSLATED

C. H. W. JOHNS, M.A.

LECTURER IN ASSYRIOLOGY, QUEENS’ COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
author of “assyrian deeds and documents”
“an assyrian doomsday book”

EDINBURGH
T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET
1903

PRINTED BY
MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED

FOR

T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH

london: simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent, and co. limited
new york: charles scribner’s sons

first impression . . . February 1903.

second impression . . . March 1903.

third impression . . . May 1903.

fourth impression . . . June 1903.

“The discovery and decipherment of this Code is the greatest event in Biblical Archæology for many a day. A translation of the Code, done by Mr. Johns of Queens’ College, Cambridge, the highest living authority on this department of study, has just been published by Messrs. T. & T. Clark in a cheap and attractive booklet. Winckler says it is the most important Babylonian record which has thus far been brought to light.”—The Expository Times.