RE: Is God’s justice close to an eye for an eye?
January 15, 2012 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2012 at 7:17 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Mosaic Law has nothing to do with any alleged deity. The notion of "vengeful retribution" outlined in the Torah,comes from Hammurabi.
An eye for an eye:
The full list of Hammurabi's laws are worth comparing with the 613 mitzvot of the Torah:
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
An eye for an eye:
Quote:The principle is found in Babylonian Law (see Code of Hammurabi) (1780 BCE).[4] It is surmised that in societies not bound by the rule of law, if a person was hurt, then the injured person (or their relative) would take vengeful retribution on the person who caused the injury. The retribution might be much worse than the crime, perhaps even death. Babylonian law put a limit on such actions, restricting the retribution to be no worse than the crime, as long as victim and offender occupied the same status in society, while punishments were less proportional with disputes between social strata: like blasphemy or laesa maiestatis (against a god, viz., monarch, even today in certain societies), crimes against one's social better were systematically punished as worse.
The full list of Hammurabi's laws are worth comparing with the 613 mitzvot of the Torah:
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
