Law codes that rest on divine authority: the Torah's legal sections, the Hindu dharma code of Manu, the Zoroastrian law book of the Sasanian era, the rules of the early Christian churches and the Chinese catalogue of punishments in ritual and penal tradition. A code belongs here when its cited article describes an ancient law code as religious, revealed or sacred. It excludes royal secular codes of the same period, which sit with the codes of Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.
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Ancient church orders (Wikipedia)
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The ancient church orders form a genre of early Christian literature, ranging from 1st to 5th century, which has the purpose of offering authoritative "apostolic" prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and Church organization.
Canons of Hippolytus (Wikipedia)
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The Canons of Hippolytus is a Christian text composed of 38 decrees ("canons") of the genre of the Church Orders.
Deuteronomic Code (Wikipedia)
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The Deuteronomic Code is the name given by academics to the law code set out in chapters 12 to 26 of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
Five Punishments (Wikipedia)
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The Five Punishments (Chinese: 五刑; pinyin: wǔ xíng; Cantonese Yale: ńgh yìhng) was the collective name for a series of physical penalties meted out by the legal system of pre-modern dynastic China.
Law of Moses (Wikipedia)
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The Law of Moses (Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה, romanized: Torat Moshe), also called the Mosaic Law, is the law said to have been revealed to Moses by God.
Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān (Wikipedia)
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Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān (Book of a Thousand Judgements) is a significant primary document concerning the social and institutional history of Sasanian Iran and the only entirely legal treatise on pre-Islamic Sasanian jurisprudence to have survived from the Zoroastrian era.
Manusmriti (Wikipedia)
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The Manusmṛti (Sanskrit: मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is a major legal text among the many Dharmaśāstras of Hinduism.
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