Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-20

The hfth volume OF the new schaff-
Hcrzog Encyclopedia Of Religious
| knowledge, has just been issued by the
/ Funk & wagnalls company. II contains
! q number OF instructive articles on
archaeological subjects, and among these
We notice one on "Hammurabli and His
| Code"
The law code, which was discovered
al Persepolis in 1901. by Prof Morgan,
is one Of the most remarkable histori-
cal monuments that have ever been re-
covered from the past. II is supposed
to anteGate thousand years the prom
ulgation OF the law on sinai. The monu-
ment itself consists of a pillar Of stone,
eight feet high. on which the law is
Inscribed Originally there were about
5000 lines Of writing. divided into forty
nine columns. but five columns on the
front have been erased by an Eamite
ling The writing begins with an emu
meration OF the kings titles. the story
Of his installmcnt as king and the ele-
walton of Babylon 10 the position Of
the capital OF the Kingdom. The code
itself begins: Law and justice 1 es-
tablish IN the land ! made happy the
human race in those days" As to the
purpose of the monument. il says: The
law of the land as to judgments. the
decisions Of the land as TO decisions,
my precious DEGREES for the informa-
ton Of the oppressed upon this stone
wrote and placed in the temple OF
Merodach and Babylon" The code is a
most remarkable document. II shows
most careful and systematic order,
beginning with wltchcraft, and then
passing through all grades Of social and
domestic life. ending with a scale OF
wages for all kinds Of workingmen.
The following may serve as illustra-
lions OF lawmaking IN those days;
III a builder build house for a
| man and do not make its construction
| firm, and the house collapses and cause
the death Of the owner. the builder
shall be put TO death
| II u XIII the son OF the owner they
shall nut the son Of the builder to
| death.
II T. kills slave Of the owner the
builder shall restore TO him a slave Of
| equal value.
III il destroy property he shall re-
| store what II destroyed, and because he
did not make the house which he built
| firm and il collapsed he shall rebuild
! ~ at his own expense"
The laws relating 10 fees for the
practice OF medicine are as follows.
III a physician operate on a gentle
man for a severe wound. with a lam
Get and save the mans life, or If he
open an abscess In a geutlemans eye
and save the eye, he shall receive ten
! shekels OF silver. II he operate on a
freeman he shall receive five shekels.
III IL be a mans slave he operate on,
the owner OF the slave shall give two
shekels to the physician"
There were severe penalties for NAL
practice The laws says.
III a physician operate ON a gentle
man and cause his death or destroy
his eye, they shall cut on the phys.-
clans fingers.
If he operate on the slave or free
man and cause his death he shall re-
store a slave Of equal value. il he de-
stroy his eye he shall pay in silver
half his value"
Then the question Of fees comes up
again
m he set broken bone for gem
tieman or cure his disease the gentle.
man shall pay five shekels
III he bee a freeman he shall pay
three shekels OF silver.
"If he be a slave the owner OF the
slave shall give the physician two
/ shokes"
There are 40 many similarities be-
, tween the old Babylonian. ana the No.
| sale code. that the common origin may
| be cons idered fully established.
Among other notable articles In this
volume OF the Encyclopedia OF Religious
/ knowledge may bemontioned, THE Holy
| Roman Empire" "The Goths." "The
| Huguenots." Hebrew Handkerchief"
"Herod and His Family" and "The
| Hittites"a nation unknown 10 his
torians except through the Bible mar
rative There are many important
biographical and theological articles.
! The articles on God and Immortality
| are especially Interesting