Cuneiform Law
Cuneiform law is often seen as a predecessor of this law
What is Biblical or Jewish law?
The Law of Moses primarily refers to this book or books.
The Torah or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
He was the first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece.
Who is Draco/Drako/Drakon?
This is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1330 couplets or kurals.
What is the Tirukkural or simply the Kural?
Early Irish Law first governed the lives of its people during this time period.
When is Medieval/Early Christian Ireland?
(5th-8th c)
This is the best known of the cuneiform laws
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This Latinized Greek/English term also refers to the Mosaic Law.
What is "Pentateuch"?
Draconian laws are often characterized by this.
What is their unforgiving harshness?
The text is divided into this number of books.
What are three?
(Virtue (aram), wealth (porul), and love (inbam))
The Brehons were judges guided by this tradition.
What is oral tradition?
These laws were always the result of this person
Who is the ruler, whether it be a king or a prince?
The Mosaic Law differed from its neighbours' laws because the former was seen as offences against (blank) rather than (blank)
What is God rather than society/civil law?
The previous oral law was known by (blank) and replaced by (blank).
What is the blood feud replaced by a written code to be enforced only by a court of law?
Written on the ideas of ahimsa, the text emphasizes these two main virtues.
(Ahimsa is the ancient Indian principle of non-violence and is the main tenet in all Indian religions)
According to its written text, the problems of the world could be attributed to this.
What is equal status?
(Unequal status was of great import to early Irish Christian society. Status brought peace as it put a price to a person.)
These laws were seen as less severe than the Code of Hammurabi when and if violated.
What are Hittite laws/ Code of the Nesilim?
According to the Midrash, the Torah was created at this time.
Which is before the creation of the world?
(It was a blueprint for creation)
So none could claim ignorance of the law, Draco had the laws posted on these.
What are wooden tablets?
The first European language translation was in this language.
What is Latin?
(Done by Constantius Joseph Beschi and published in 1730. It was incomplete.)
Early Ireland has this claim to fame by being one of the first areas in the world to shun this form of punishment.
What is capital punishment?
(This was often the last resort.)
These four peoples are among the most famous known for their cuneiform laws.
Who are the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites?
(Will also accept Hurrians, Elamites, Kassites)
Contrary to popular belief, Torah does not translate to "law" but to this.
What is "teaching"/ "doctrine", or "instruction"?
This was the reason for the death penalty for minor offences.
What is Draco "considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones"?
The greatest sins according to the book's author were these.
Which are ingratitude and meat-eating?
(In the words of P. S. Sundaram, while "all other sins may be redeemed, but never ingratitude," Valluvar couldn't understand "how anyone could wish to fatten himself by feeding on the fat of others.")
According to law, the rights of sons did not fully increase until this event?
What is the death of the father?