Many are the stories that were told in the Hebrew Bible, but the one story that is yet to be told is the story of the Hebrew Bible itself. Dr. Ashraf Ezzat The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day. While it’s fair […]
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Hammurabi vs. Covenant Code – Chawna Crawford 5* pdf
Hammurabi vs Convent Code pdf 5*
Noah’s ark and the flood – Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories 5*
Religious Tolerance Noah’s ark and the flood Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories horizontal rule Comparing the stories The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq contain a story that describes how the Bablylonian god Enlil had been bothered by the incessant noise generated […]
Law code – LAW WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
See Article History Alternative Titles: codification, legal code Law code, also called Legal Code, a more or less systematic and comprehensive written statement of laws. Law codes were compiled by the most ancient peoples. The oldest extant evidence for a code is tablets from the ancient archives of the city of Ebla (now at Tell […]
4c. Hammurabi’s Code: An Eye for an Eye
Hammurabi cartoon “Hammurabi, the king of righteousness, on whom Shamash has conferred the law, am I.” “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” This phrase, along with the idea of written laws, goes back to ancient Mesopotamian culture that prospered long before the Bible was written or the civilizations of the […]
Sumerian Polytheism, Sin and a Great Flood
Like people before the rise of farming, the Sumerians saw movement around them as the magic of spirits, magic being the only explanation they had for how things worked. These spirits were their gods, and with many spirits around, the Sumerians believed in many gods – gods that had humanlike emotions. The Sumerians believed that […]
Hammurabi and his God Given Code of Laws – Dhwti
Hammurabi Code of Laws gods Anu and Enlil, for the enhancement of the well-being of the people, named me by my name: Hammurabi, the pious prince, who venerates the gods, to make justice prevail in the land, to abolish the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak,… (Hammurabi’s Code of […]
Genesis of Genesis: Where Did the Biblical Story of Creation Come From?
The Bible actually has more than one creation myth, and the one you’re thinking of seems to have arisen not from ancient Israelite lore but from the central Asian steppes. Primordial Mesopotamian mythical beings: A chaos monster, left, being vanquished by the Sun God. Myths around the region got adopted and changed. Primordial Mesopotamian mythical […]