medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
O.K., so there is no agreement. Intelligent exchange of ideas is not
just speculation. AND, as any postmodernist can tell you, the person
who wrote the Hamurabi entry cannot be trusted. I mean, do you know
him, huh, do you? Why did he write this, anyway? Was he up for the
ordeal and knew he was too full of hot air to sink. I mean, think
about it. And, are you sure that the document, itself, was not
forged, or tampered with by some sharp lawyer whose client just
floated. I mean, gee. yrs, tom ault
"V. Kerry Inman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
>
> As I appealed in the midst of this discussion, 'Stop speculating, we
>have too
> often been wrong this way, does anyone have a text?' I want to
>re-open this
> thread. Too often we accept references without double checking the
>original
> sources.
>
> Well, guess what? I checked Hammurabi. In Hammurabi the innocent
>floats! In
> the edition of Driver and Miles, titled THE BABYLONIAN LAWS, volume
>1, Legal
> Commentary, p 63. The commentary points out quite definitely that
>the innocent
> floats and that Hammurabi has previously been erroneously cited as
>supporting
> the 'innocent drowns' practice.
>
> I definitely have learned from this experience--but my error did not
>have nearly
> so great a result as it might have had in the middle ages!!
>
> --V. K. Inman
>
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