(M9) The comparison with the Mosaic Code was sure to attract notice, especially as Professor F. Delitzsch had called the attention of the public to it, in his lecture entitled _Babel und Bibel_, even before more of the Code was known than the fragments from Nineveh. Dr. J. Jeremias has published a small book called _Moses und Hammurabi_, in which he deals with the relations pretty thoroughly. Professor C. F. Kent has also examined them in his article entitled _The Recently Discovered Civil Code of Hammurabi_, in _The Biblical World_ for March, 1903. Some remarks on the subject are to be found in the _New York Independent_, December 11, 18, 1902, and January 8, 15, 22, 1903, accompanying a translation. All the above follow Winckler’s renderings. The translation here given makes use of the above works, but must be regarded as independent. It is impracticable to detail and justify the changes made. The renderings can hardly be regarded as final, where actual contracts do not occur to illustrate the Code; but there is very little doubt that we know the tenor of these laws with substantial accuracy. Professor V. Scheil divided the text of the Code into sections according to subject-matter. But there are no marks of a division on the monument and Scheil’s division is not adhered to in this work. For convenience of reference, however, his original section-numbers are given in connection with each law or sub-section of a law. (M10) Among the treasures preserved in the library of Ashurbânipal and in the archives of the Babylonian temples were a number of tablets and fragments of tablets which recorded the efforts made by Semitic scribes to render Sumerian words and phrases into Semitic. A large number of these are concerned with legal subjects. A fairly complete list of those now in the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum will be found in the fifth volume of Dr. Bezold’s catalogue, page 2032. The greater part of them have been published either in the British Museum _Inscriptions of Western Asia_, in Dr. P. Haupt’s _Keilschrifttexten_, Vol. I. of the _Assyriologische Bibliothek_, or in Dr. F. Hommel’s _Sumerische Lesestücke_. In the latter will be found references to other publications. Dr. B. Meissner further published a number of later Babylonian editions of the same or allied series.(12)