How are the Egyptian book of dead Hammurabi Code of laws and the epic of Gilgamesh similar?

Answer 1

Those writings have a religious theme about them unlike the Hammurabi code which has a set of codified laws in the epic. A group of about two hundred formulae for securing eternal life, from which a selection is found in manuscripts written for elite burials from the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) to the end of the Ptolemaic Period. The same formulae are found on many other supports, from tomb walls to single objects placed in the tomb or religious setting, which is in the book of the dead. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, we know something of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the second and third millenniums BCE. We know they celebrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know they believed in many gods; we know they were self-conscious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. These things we can fix or establish definitely. But stories also remind us of things we cannot fix of what it means to be human. They reflect our will to understand what we cannot understand, and reconcile us to mortality.