The Code of Hammurabi? ?

Question

Okay, I'm doing an essay, and I have questions to answer in it. Now, I know some people are going to be like, Do your work, but hey I'm not asking for answers. Just topics to write about. Okay some of the questions I could use topics on is:

What hammurabi codes were borrowed in other societies and religions do you think. ( I immediatley thought of Muslims but, I'm not sure. I'll search that up.)

How do you think these were enforced? And by whom. (Well, I was thinking basically they were enforced by the court. I mean, every code basically has to be presented to a judge or something.)

What is the role of women? ( I think the role of women was to bear children. If someone caused the baby to die, they would pay by thier daughters, or by money. )

Thanks to those who don't give suck fest answers. It's appreciated.

Answer 1

Islam was not founded until the 7th century CE, therefore any connection would be hard to prove. We don't know  anything but what has been found written down and translated, and a lot of that is out of context and open to conjecture.

It seems that there was a court system, and a police to enforce the law. Seeing the extremely harsh punishments prescribed it is hard to believe that they were strictly enforced in a rural society, where interdependence and blood-relationships would usually not allow a successful prosecution to go without social ostracism by relatives of the convicted criminal, depending, of course, on the nature of the crime. In other words, in all probability a conflict would usually be solved informally, outside of the legal system. In the cities it would have been different.

Women seem to have been considered under the guardianship of their fathers, brothers and husbands, but at least some professions seem to have been open to them. According to the codex a son or daughter born of a slave would be considered free as long as one parent was a free citizen.

I don't think a lot was borrowed directly, the Egyptians had their own, much more humane, laws, but maybe Draco, the Greek law-giver, took a leaf out of his Persian enemies' book.

It is very likely that some of it also went into the Jewish laws, and from there to Islam, wherever the prophet had not made his own provisions.

Answer 2

Well, almost every form of Christianity has it's own adaptation of the code of hammurabi, as well as judaism.

Answer 3

Good luck!