Volker.Doormann

The 10 commandments, which are claimed by the Jews Moses got them direct from God are taken in truth from the Hammurabi code
doormann.org/hammur.htm some 4000 years ago. They are filed in a stone now readable in the Louvre in Paris, France and contains well known rules like: »If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.« Beyond this, the vita of Moses is taken from the much older legend of »Sargon of Akkad« (Ancient Near Eastern Texts 119) doormann.org/sargon01.htm .

I think it is always wise to distinguish between social rules and spiritual order. Commandments are pure social rules to control the folk in this world. They have no relation to any spiritual order, which is only to find in freedom from each individual himself, never by commandments.

BTW. The misunderstanding of the vulnerable woman, to suppress her freedom as men, Hammurabi has taken from the Code of Manu »Manusmriti« from the ancient India doormann.org/manuslaw.txt where the mistaken has started. Islam has also taken this from the OT track, to be mistaken that this nonsense has a spiritual meaning.

Volker