Comparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Covenant Code In comparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Pentateuchal laws
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In comparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Pentateuchal laws the fact of the priority of the Code (by well over 300 years) has disposed of some untenable theories and given rise to others. For instance, the old critical view that detailed codes of laws like those found in the Pentateuch are anachronistic for so early a period has been exploded by the discovery. Again, higher critical views which have placed the origin of many of the laws ascribed to Moses in the ninth, eighth, or seventh century BC (or even later), have had to be drastically revised or entirely rejected.
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