Compare and contrast the differences and similarities between Mesopotamian and early Hebrew civilizations
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Students should be able to list a number of similarities, starting with the carrying of Mesopotamian traditions by Abraham, as the patriarch of the Hebrew religion, following the formation of a monotheistic covenant. The similarities of Hammurabi's laws with many found in Hebrew Scripture can be explained with the example of "an eye for an eye." Conversely, while women had a number of civil and legal rights within Mesopotamian society, they had few within the patriarchal Hebrew society. Traditional stories about the flood exist in the Noah epic of Hebrew tradition, as well as the Gilgamesh epic in Mesopotamia. Descriptions of Mesopotamian zigurrats are in accord with the biblical descriptions of the Tower of Babel, itself a reference to Babylon.
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