Identifier: babelbibl00deli (find matches)
Title: Babel and Bible;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Delitzsch, Friedrich, 1850-1922 McCormack, Joseph, 1865- (from old catalog) tr Carruth, William Herbert, 1859-1924, (from old catalog) tr Robinson, Lydia Gillingham, b. 1875, tr
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago, The Open court publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 76. A Portion of the Inscription of the Laws of Hammurabi.
the King says that he, the sun of Babylon, which sheds the light over North and South in his land, has written down these laws, nevertheless he in his turn received them from the highest judge of heaven and earth, the
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Fig. 77. Hammurabi Before Shamash, the God of Law.
Sun god, the lord of all that is called right, and there-fore the mighty tablet of the law bears at its head the beautiful bas-relief (Fig. 77), which represents Hammu-rabi in the act of receiving the laws from Shamash, thesupreme law-giver. Thus and not otherwise was it with the giving of the Law on Sinai, the so-called making of the Covenant between Yahveh and Israel. For the purely human origin and character of the Israelitic laws are surely evident enough! Or is any one so bold as to maintain that the thrice holy God, who with his own finger engraved upon the stone tablet lo tirzach thou shalt not kill, in the same breath sanctioned blood-vengeance, which rests like a curse upon Oriental peoples to this day, while Hammurabi had almost obliterated the traces of it? Or is it possible that any one still clings to the notion that circumcision, which had for ages before been customary among the Egyptians and the

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