Hammurabi’s Code, written several hundred years before Moses, favored the elite. If an upper-class man blinded the eye of another aristocrat, he paid with the loss of one of his eyes. But if he did the same to a commoner, he compensated the injured man only with one mina(about a pound) of silver.
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.” “For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”(Leviticus 17:11, 14)
존 러스킨의 <터너>, 민음사 출간(2016. 10.) _ “화려한 예술비평가의 길과 험난한 사회사상가의 길을 차례로 걸었던” 19세기 사람. “나중에 온 이 사람에게도”
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