Reply #5: P.S, This guy says no one these days believes that Moses was inspired by the Code of

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Hammurabi.

The theory that Moses’ Law is simply a rewording of Hammurabi’s has largely been abandoned today, due to the fact that similar law codes, even older than Hammurabi’s, have been found in various other places. These would include the Cuneiform laws, written as early as 2350 B.C.; the Code of Urukagina, 2380 B.C.; the Code of Ur-Nammu, 2050 B.C.; and others.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/Moses-Hammurabi-code.html#ixzz2oNugI4eN

Then again, most people who write about such things in these times have an agenda of one kind or another. So, who knows?

This site has a comparison of sorts. http://www.specialtyinterests.net/codexhammurabi.html

And, of course, since the invasion of Iraz, the Code is perhaps literally a dead letter.

Among the artifacts that may have been carried off by looters are the tablets containing Hammurabi’s Code and the 4600-hundred year old Ram in the Thicket from Ur. The 4300-year old bust of an Akkadian king was destroyed by vandals. What was not destroyed by the Mongols in 1248 was allowed to be destroyed by the Americans in 2003. Gone are the artifacts of ancient Sumeria, Assyria, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Ninevah, and Ur.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/10/are-americans-the-new-mongols-of-the-mideast/

I remember Dennis Miller discussing at the time the fact that soldiers had been told not to attempt to stop the looting of the Baghdad Museum.

"So fucking what? It was a bunch of old shit and their new shit is just like their old shit." (That may be off by a word, if that, that's how much of an impression his yahooism made on me. Here, I am using "Yahoo" as Jonathan Swift used it in Gulliver's Travels, not as used to name something on the internet.)

Yeah, because, when I was in Egypt, no one cared about the Sphinx and when I was in Greece, no one cared about the Acropolis. And no one anywhere cares about some so called Dead Sea scrolls that a little Arab boy found in a cave.

http://www.mywordswritten.org/DeadSeaScrolls.html

I guess they were exactly like their new shit.

So, if someone invaded the US and ordered troops to loot the Middle Eastern antiquities sections of, for example, the the Met in NY and Fine Arts in Boston, it would be okay with Miller because old Middle Eastern shit is just like new Middle Eastern shit?