Hammurabi: The King Of Righteousness

Hammurabi was the most power king in Mesopotamia and ruled for forty-two years. This superior king was known as the ‘King of Righteousness’ because of his role in making the first laws that have ever been written down. These two-hundred and two laws that were all written in cuneiform were collectively called ‘Hammurabi’s Code.’ These laws are controversial, even to this day. Was it just or not? ‘Just’ means if the subject in question is right, morally. Hammurabi’s Code was not just because it did not protect the lesser or the ‘weak’ as he said it would and the laws would condone no ‘mistakes.’ Hammurabi said the laws were to protect the weak from the strong, but not all of the laws seemed to turn out that way. For example, Law 209 says