When I search for it, it brings up "does God exist?" and blah blah whatnot...
2007-03-31 07:46:56 · 5 answers · asked by La_Honey 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Are you speaking of the two tablets of the law as found in the Ten Commandments? The real ones do not exist. However, the teachings do exist and to some extent they form the basis of our legal system today, but you can't push that basis too far.
2007-03-31 07:53:05 · answer #1 · answered by John B 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-15 13:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by vasim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If you're speaking of Roman Law,
If a man is raving mad, rightful authority over his person and chattels shall belong to his agnates or to his clansmen
Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bend crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree.
If any person had sung or composed against another person a song such as was causing slander or insult to another....he should be clubbed to death (now we sue, but it's just as bad in some cases).
If the theft has been done by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be held to be lawfully killed.
(It is unlawful for a thief to be) killed by day....unless he defends himself with a weapon; even though he has come with a weapon, unless he shall use the weapon and fight back, you shall not kill him. And even if he resists, first call out (so that someone may hear and come up).
Treason: he who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment.
Putting to death of any man, whosoever he might be, unconvicted is forbidden.
Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.
2007-03-31 07:59:06 · answer #3 · answered by simply_annoyed 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Twelve Tables were a code of Roman law instituted in the early Republic (449bc). They have nothing to do with Jewish law.
Simply_annoyed answered the question of their continued use pretty well already.
2007-03-31 08:07:18 · answer #4 · answered by blakenyp 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many of the thousands of laws that God gave to Isreal are reflected in our laws today.
The most glaring ones that come to mind are: "Thou shalt not kill" and the prohibition agains "coveting" a neighbor's wife or property.
2007-03-31 07:53:08 · answer #5 · answered by pajicek 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋