Is Torah copied from Hammurabi’s Law? : Torah did not copy from Hammurabi’s Law

[paarsurrey]

Your valuable inputs please.
Jews and non-Jews; all may comment here

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[paarsurrey]

I quote a sentence from Wikipedia:

“Parallels between this narrative* and the giving of laws by God in Jewish tradition to Moses and similarities between the two legal codes suggest a common ancestor in the Semitic background of the two.”

Hammurabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

* Of Hammurabi’s Law
What could be that common ancestor?

Any idea, please

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[paarsurrey]

My question is that when there are so many similarities in Hammurabi's Law and the Torah; why Torah is not considered to have been copied/plagiarized from Hammurabi's Law?

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[Sleeppy]

There are some scholars who do believe that. They are probably cited in the Wikipedia article.

 

[outhouse]

And your books are plagiarized from this material.

 

[paarsurrey]

And your books are plagiarized from this material.

Which material you refer to and which books.
Please elaborate.

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[AlphaAlex115]

Which material you refer to and which books.
Please elaborate.

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The torah was copied from the bible, it's a well known fact.

 

[paarsurrey]

The torah was copied from the bible, it's a well known fact.

Torah and (Jewish) Bible are no different, my friend!

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[AlphaAlex115]

Yeah they are.. the christian bible is slightly different my friend..

 

[outhouse]

Yeah they are.. the christian bible is slightly different my friend..

Quit talking about things you know nothing about.


The torah is in the bible.

 

[outhouse]

It is a fact previous religions have influenced, all existing Abrahamic religions.


Including yours

 

[AlphaAlex115]

Quit talking about things you know nothing about.


The torah is in the bible.

No its the Jewish version of the bible, right??

 

[outhouse]

No its the Jewish version of the bible, right??

It is the first five books of the bible.

The OT is all Jewish scripture.


They read it on a scroll, but they words are the same, in Hebrew.

 

[AlphaAlex115]

It is the first five books of the bible.

The OT is all Jewish scripture.


They read it on a scroll, but they words are the same, in Hebrew.

Ok thanks I guess..

 

[paarsurrey]

Yeah they are.. the christian bible is slightly different my friend..

We will discuss Christian Bible later; they say that Paul felt no compunction about stealing other peoples work and using it as his own while some people say that many of the stories in the OT were stolen from prior sources (Buddhists, Hindu, Hellenistic etc) and rewritten by those writers.

But that is a different topic.

We are discussing here Torah or the Jewish Bible which is sometimes said to be copied or plagiarized from the Hammurabi's Law.

Well that is point to be discussed on its own merit.

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[outhouse]

We will discuss Christian Bible later; they say that Paul felt no compunction about stealing other peoples work and using it as his own while some people say that many of the stories in the OT were stolen from prior sources (Buddhists, Hindu, Hellenistic etc) and rewritten by those writers.

But that is a different topic.

We are discussing here Torah or the Jewish Bible which is sometimes said to be copied or plagiarized from the Hammurabi's Law.

Well that is point to be discussed on its own merit.

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It is best you quit talking about things you are ignorant to.

The OT and NT plagiarized many sources, just like your books.

 

[paarsurrey]

It is best you quit talking about things you are ignorant to.

The OT and NT plagiarized many sources, just like your books.

But you did not tell which one of the two you described "our" in another thread.

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[outhouse]

But you did not tell which one of the two you described "our" in another thread.

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I don't have to tell you anything.

And I did post a link.

 

[paarsurrey]

Torah/scribes/Judaism took stories from the neighboring communities.

Example:

“Domain of Man”
by Charles N. Pope
“In the mythology of ancient Egypt, the god who arrived first on the Earth was called Atum, signifying "Totality." Atum, as with Biblical Adam, was naked and required a civilizing influence. "The loincloth given to Atum served less to clothe him, in the strict sense of the word, than to permit him to manifest his royalty by means of a specific garment."a One cannot help but compare the royal undergarment of Atum with the fig leaf loincloth made for Biblical Adam.

In the Egyptian creation story, the first goddess, Tefnut, was said to come forth out of Atum. One of her Mesopotamian nicknames was Nin-ti, meaning "Lady Life," or "The Lady (Who Makes) Live." S.N. Kramer states that ti is also the Sumerian word for "rib," therefore Nin-ti could variously be interpreted as "the Lady of the Rib."b In the Bible, Eve is of course formed from the rib of Adam.

The Hebrew name Adam means "a man, ruddy." Genesis 2:23 (KJV)c states: "she [Eve] was taken out of man." However, the Hebrew word translated in this particular verse as "man" is not Adam but iysh (376).d Like the Egyptian name Atum, this word iysh also conveys a sense of both unity and totality.

It is commonly translated elsewhere in the Bible as "every, everyone," i.e., all men. There is an obvious phonic similarity between Adam and Atum. A true linguistic link is also not so unreasonable given that the names of all of the other major Egyptian deities have definite Semitic etymologies.1”

Chapter 1: A Twisted History (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel)

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[outhouse]

Torah/scribes/Judaism took stories from the neighboring communities.

Example:

“Domain of Man”
by Charles N. Pope

Has no credibility what so ever.

Your books PLAGIARIZED the bible.

This is like urinating in your own drinking water.