Archaeology · 21 · Yhwh and His People

Hammurabi's stele

Over seven feet tall, the stele found at Susa and now in the Louvre shows Hammurabi honored by the sun god Shamash above 4,130 lines of laws.

A monument to royal power.

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Its prologue claims the gods called Hammurabi so the strong wouldn't harm the weak.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 343

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