Code of Hammurabi

After all the talk about amputating ears and public whippings, the Code of Hammurabi pauses to consider the plight of the intern.

Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns Lapham's Quarterly 2011

After all the talk about amputating ears and public whippings, the Code of Hammurabi pauses to consider the plight of the intern.

Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns Lapham's Quarterly 2011

Newsweek magazine reports that surrogacy was regulated in the Code of Hammurabi, dating from 1800 B.C.

Misconception Paul 2010

Newsweek magazine reports that surrogacy was regulated in the Code of Hammurabi, dating from 1800 B.C.

Misconception Paul 2010

But Iraq, despite an ancient history that claims Babylon and the Code of Hammurabi—even the fabled biblical Garden of Eden—could not in recent decades boast a fraction of the cultural energy that Iranians take for granted.

Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

It was the cold continent of the barbarians—Europe—and its emigrants to new worlds that produced charters for democracy and embodied them in modern texts, and not the cities of the Greater Middle East that had produced the letters of the alphabet, the Code of Hammurabi, laws of the seas, and the sciences of humanity.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Personally, I think the focus of the narrative voice is a legitimate stylistic choice, up to the writer, rather than something that can be imposed like the Code of Hammurabi on every novel wavering on human fingertips, waiting to be written.

Author! Author! » 2007 » May 2007

Personally, I think the focus of the narrative voice is a legitimate stylistic choice, up to the writer, rather than something that can be imposed like the Code of Hammurabi on every novel wavering on human fingertips, waiting to be written.

Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The Point-of-View Nazis return, bigger and badder than ever 2007

Our country does not operate under the Code of Hammurabi.

Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Congress Does Not Have To Fund Escalation In Iraq 2007

Personally, I think the focus of the narrative voice is a stylistic choice, up to the writer, rather than something that can be imposed like the Code of Hammurabi on every novel wavering on human fingertips, waiting to be written.

Author! Author! » Blog Archive » A major milestone, and the return of the Point-of-View Nazis! 2006