The World’s Earliest Laws

This book is No. 43 of the Thinker’s Library Series. In its wisdom, justice and tolerance, the Hammurabi Code forms one of the most remarkable of the early landmarks of civilization. Contents: Discovery of the Code; Hammurabi and His Reign; Text of the Inscription; Notes on the Code; Laws of Moses; Appendices: Babylonian weights, measures and values; Abraham and Amraphel; dynastic lists; earlier Sumarian law codes.