The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples / The Schweich Lectures

by C. H. W. Johns

THE BRITISH ACADEMY

The Relations between the
Laws of Babylonia and the
Laws of the Hebrew Peoples

By
The Rev. C. H. W. Johns, M.A., Litt.D.
Master of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge
The Schweich Lectures
1912
London
Published for the British Academy
By Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
Amen Corner, E.C.
1914

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OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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PREFACE

It has long been held that the laws of the Israelites, as revealed by God to Moses, by him embodied in the books of the Pentateuch and since preserved by the zealous care of the Jewish people, are incomparable. Accordingly they have been adopted professedly by most Christian nations and were early accepted by our own king Alfred[1] as the basis of the law system of this our land.