Was Hammurabi's Code a secular law?

[Keithzworld]

Could you give details please and if possible a source for your answer?

[teifuani]

Apparently so, in a way:

In politics, Hammurabi's code is evidence of a more pronounced separation between religious and secular authority than had existed in ancient Sumer.

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Iraq.html

I'll see if I can find any more info. I personally don't know much about it, I just did a quick search. ^^;

Edit: Here's something else I found:

Hammurabi's "Code" was similar, in that it recorded the results of judgments that the king had made in various legal cases.  

Hammurabi's innovation was to have these judgments carved into stone, on monuments ("stela") placed in major cities and tablets distributed to his administrators, so that they could use his decisions as a guide for settling other legal cases.

It goes on to say he still kind of saw himself as "handing down justice from the gods," but it came across to me like it was still more secular that it had been in the past.

http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/mhickey/lecture%202%20west%20civ%20to%201650.htm

[Keithzworld]

It goes on to say he still kind of saw himself as "handing down justice from the gods," but it came across to me like it was still more secular that it had been in the past.

http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/mhickey/lecture%202%20west%20civ%20to%201650.htm

Thanks very much, that was very helpful and very useful information.