THE OLDEST CODE OF LAWS IN THE WORLD
C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns translation
THE CODE OF LAWS PROMULGATED BY HAMMURABI, KING OF BABYLON b.c. 2285-2242
TRANSLATED
by
C. H. W. JOHNS, M.A.
LECTURER IN ASSYRIOLOGY, QUEENS’ COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE author of “assyrian deeds and documents” “an assyrian doomsday book”
EDINBURGH T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET 1903
PRINTED BY MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED
FOR
T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH
london: simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent, and co. limited new york: charles scribner’s sons
first impression . . . February 1903.
second impression . . . March 1903.
third impression . . . May 1903.
fourth impression . . . June 1903.
“The discovery and decipherment of this Code is the greatest event in Biblical Archæology for many a day. A translation of the Code, done by Mr. Johns of Queens’ College, Cambridge, the highest living authority on this department of study, has just been published by Messrs. T. & T. Clark in a cheap and attractive booklet. Winckler says it is the most important Babylonian record which has thus far been brought to light.”—The Expository Times.