a. What was the theme of the reading? Hammurabi's Tablets and the rules he wrote down that seem very similiar to the laws of the Ten Commandments.
b. Cite a specific idea/phrase that stood out to you. Section I gave almost 40 different senarios of a man and woman committing adultery. each one with the usual punishment, death.
b. What new ideas did it generate? It made me think of the people I have heard who argue Moses took many of his Laws from Hammurabi. Whether or not that is true, I would like to turn the tables and ask, what if God told Hammurabi that these laws are just and are what should be written down?
c. What modern parallels do you see? Some of the "lesser" punishments are doing the king's work for a certain amount of time. that makes me think of prison in this day and age.
d. How does it relate to the text? Have been talking about the Politics of the day and age and how it was 1 man making all the rules, whether they were right or wrong, they had to be followed.
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