First, we need to understand the connection between âthings strangledâ and âblood.â Lenski noted: ââFrom a thing strangled and from bloodâ may be considered together since both alike involve blood. An animal that was not butchered but snared and killed by strangling still had blood in itâ (1961, p. 616).
Hammurabi was born circa 1810 BC in Babylon, modern day Iraq. The lasting contribution of Hammurabi on Babylonian society was his set of laws written on twelve stones and displayed publicly for all to see, the most common being, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.. The laws are commonly known as Hammurabi's Code.
The Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2100-2050 BCE), which originated with either Ur-Nammu or his son Shulgi of Ur, is the oldest code of laws in the world. Hammurabiâs code differed from the earlier laws in significant ways. The historian Kriwaczek explains this, writing : Hammurabiâs laws reflect the shock of an unprecedented social environment: the multi-ethnic, multi-tribal Babylonian world.