Talk:Assyrian law

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Racism

Til Eulenspiegel is a racist against Mesopotamians. He keeps putting in a line that Assyrian law is "notably more brutal" than other laws, but when editors but in fact that Old Testament law is very brutal, calling for massacres and destruction of idolators, he took it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.238.8.197 (talk) 12:37, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's not that at all. I'm just concerned that you are introducing sources that make no mention of the topic, Assyrian law. Even if you are correct that Old Testament law is more brutal, this is the article about Assyrian law. Please re-read WP:SYNTH carefully - we can't introduce any syntheses unless perhaps they specifically apear already in print. If you find an RS that we could quote, that specifically compares the two laws, I'd be more than happy to take a look at including it. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:44, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

The source I copied and pasted the content from, states that the material is public domain. — EliasAlucard|Talk 11:35 09 Oct, 2007 (UTC)

reason for removal

"Assyrian law was to a large extent derived from Babylonia. - http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/A/ASSYRIA/ "

The reason I have been removing this is that the authority cited, the ISBE, is so old that it was written before the Assyrian Code had been fully discovered and properly studied, and cites only even older books written before the Assyrian Code was even discovered at all, so it does not seem like a modern, informed source. That is why I researched and looked up the information on when the Code was discovered and by whom, and added it to the article (i.e., it was discovered by the German Oriental Society). If you can find a more recent scholarly source that the Assyrian law was "derived from Babylonia", preferably one with examples as opposed to a bald assertion, it should be fine, although presumably it would be better parallelism in that case to say it was derived from "Babylonian law", not derived from "Babylonia". Til Eulenspiegel 18:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]