Usually interpretation or even misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism, where different communities have an already set up establishment of certain norms based on their own believes, traditions, social, legislative, and personal values and ethics from which they judge other foreign communities. When considering other societies, it is usually a difficult task to view "other world" without any observer prejudices. Each world, our and their can evoke its own realities that are more or less comparable from one period to another, or from one culture to another.

One of the obvious misinterpretations, discussed in this paper, took place considering historical document written by king of Mesopotamia. Our textbook, Arts and Culture,(p 98) presents Hammurabi's Code as a "Law Code" of king Hamm

Therefore keeping in mind such a definition of Hammurabi's "Code", Americans can look at it as primitive, and even savage prototype of contemporary set of laws. From the American bias and American community's perspective, Hammurabi's code is a violent, non-ethic judicial document based on a cruel and unacceptable to American society "eye-for-an-eye" and "tooth-for-a-tooth" concept. This cruelty is depicted in a "law" that states that an amputation was demanded for any surgeon whose malpractice resulted in a patient's death. The other such situation occurs when a contractor whose slapdash s=work led to the collapse of a home and the death of owner could expect to be put to death himself. Another, even more savage condition takes place when a woman who happen to neglect her house and family and humiliate her husband, would be forced to undergo "trial-by-water" (Mesopotamia, p134).

4. Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language. Published by: Gramery Books, New York/ Avenel, New Jersey. 1989.

The ordering principle of "chapters" in Hammurabi's " Code" can also be understood, once looking at it from Mesopotamian bias. Even though each "chapter" is associated with a particular issue, ad "chapters" are arranged in a specific order, which is a clear feature of a legislative code, it is not. To Mesopotamians it was very common to arrange their written items in a linear sequence, where each point raises the next one. Technique used in cuneiform writing system developed earlier and being popular structure of script(Arts and Culture, ). That justifies the technique where Hammurabi placed the chapter on assault followed by chapter on free professions. This is because latter begins with physicians.

According to Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (p833), a law is an imperative rule of social conduct, laid down and enforced by the legitimate authorities. Therefore we can say that a law is something general, something universal. Therefore we can make a conclusion, that the law is something general, something universal. However when we look at the "Code" closely, what we find most often are very specific and particular situations, comp

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