Students of human history can glean valuable information about any society’s morality and standards by looking at its rules and laws. To learn about relations and interactions between the citizens—between husband and wife, seller and buyer, owner and renter, borrower and lender, healer and patient, student and teacher, master and servant—we need only consider the “thou shalts” and “thou shalt nots” of the day. From those, a picture of life then and there will emerge.
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