How did Hammurabi treat women?
I will assume you are referring not to Hammurabi personally but to the laws represented in the “Code of Hammurabi”. Note a) these were NOT his own creation. Rather they were a collection of the sorts of principles (from real court decisions) around at the time. (This also means they were more a “sample”, representative of the WAY of handling cases, and NOT a true “code” that tried to systematically, consistently cover the whole range of cases.) b) they were also NOT brand new — Hammurabi was actually imitating earlier Sumerian tradition As for how the laws regarded women a) though they were not accorded all the rights of men (that is of ‘upper class’ men; many men were slaves, etc., with limited rights), they were NOT simply treated as “property”. Often they were treated more as children were – with limits both on the decisions most of them could make AND on their culpability. Several laws also were to PROTECT them (including those making sure they were provided for) b) the laws were
