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The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples The Schweich Lectures

Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter), 1857-1920· 3 chapters· 20,293 words

favour ‘the poor’. But Exod. xxiii. 3 might well be passed later to abrogate this Babylonian tendency. Exod. xxx. 15 expressly forbids the rich to pay more or the poor less. The same word for ‘poor’ occurs in all cases. Did then the early Hebrew law aim at reversing the Code’s...

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1. xxiii. 3 was really old, one wonders that the Leviticus law does so

favour ‘the poor’. But Exod. xxiii. 3 might well be passed later to abrogate this Babylonian tendency. Exod. xxx. 15 expressly forbids the rich to pay more or the poor less. The...

2. part II, nos. 124-6 (Philadelphia, _Transactions of the American

In _Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, etc., in the British Museum_, vols. i, iii, v, vii, ix, x (London, British Museum), copied by L. W. KING, 1896-1900; _Ancient Babylo...

3. part 1 contained _Legal and Commercial Transactions from the

Neo-babylonian Empire to Darius II_, by A. T. CLAY, 1908; vols. ix and x, by the same author, contained _Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur in the reign of Artaxerxes...