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==Law==
{{Main|Babylonian law}} The Code of
was one of several sets of laws in the [[ancient Near East]].<ref name="yale">{{Cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/hamframe.htm|title=The Code of codes Translated by L. W. King|accessdate=September 14, 2007|publisher=Yale University|year=2005|author= L. W. King}}</ref>
Earlier collections of laws include the [[Code of Ur-Nammu]], king of [[Ur]] (ca. 2050 BCE), the [[Laws of Eshnunna]] (ca. 1930 BCE) and the codex of [[Lipit-Ishtar]] of [[Isin]] (ca. 1870 BCE), while later ones include the [[Hittite laws]], the [[Assyrian law]]s, and [[Mosaic Law]].<ref>Barton, G.A: ''Archaeology and the Bible''. University of Michigan Library, 2009, (originally published in 1916 by American Sunday-School Union) p.406.</ref>
These codes come from similar cultures in a relatively small geographical area, and they have passages which resemble each other.<ref>Barton 2009, p.406. Barton, a professor of Semitic languages at the University of Pennsylvania from 1922 to 1931, stated that while there are similarities between the Mosaic Law and the Code of Hammurabi, a study of the entirety of both laws ''"convinces the student that the laws of the Old Testament are in no essential way dependent upon the Babylonian laws."'' He states that ''"such resemblances"'' arose from ''"a similarity of antecedents and of general intellectual outlook"'' between the two cultures, but that ''"the striking differences show that there was no direct borrowing."''</ref>
[[Image:Milkau Oberer Teil der Stele mit dem Text von Hammurapis Gesetzescode 369-2.png|thumb|right|Figures at top of [[stele]] "fingernail" above Hammurabi's code of laws.]]
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