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Hammurabi or Moses—Who’s the Authority? Biblical Authority by Don Landis on January 1, 2012; last featured May 2, 2012. The discovery of ancient law codes and historical records that precede Moses has opened a treasure trove of information about early civilization. But it also raises a question: whose account is most authoritative? The Babylonian King Hammurabi wrote a code of law that included many seemingly biblical ideas on morals, but his writing took place before Moses wrote the Bible’s first books. Does this mean the Bible borrowed its ideas from Hammurabi? According to secular historians and archaeologists, yes.