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- Religion of Israel, from Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile. University of Chicago Press, 1960. ISBN 978-0226427287 * Mendenhall, George E ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- with the stagnation within the Babylonian academies of Sura and Pumbedita. The leaders of these academies did not have the philosophical methods ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the presence ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- (Babylonian Talmud, Pesahim, 68b; Midrash, Tanhuma, 26c) Accordingly, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, it is customary to decorate synagogues ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- According to the Babylonian Talmud (Sanh. 21a), the difference between a pilegesh and a full wife was that the latter received a ketubah and ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and how they can be implemented in computer systems. ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- The rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud hotly debated the character of Joab. Rabbi Abbah ben Kahana saw him as a great warrior without whom King David ...18 KB (2,943 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- the Great. Cyrus reversed the policy of his Babylonian predecessors who had destroyed local temples and removed their religious treasures. He returned ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- return to Palestine following the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. During the early centuries of Christian expansion, they considered the ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- apparent contradiction, pointed out in the Babylonian Talmud, lead to two divergent views. Samuel and Rabbi Eliezer Hakappar, focusing on the sin-offering ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- knowledge of the ancient Greek and Babylonian world; he relied mainly on the work of Hipparchus of three centuries earlier. It was preserved ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- lineage through Jacob until the time of the Babylonian exile is found in 1 Chronicles 2-8. ==Rabbinical literature== A variety of rabbinical legends ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- years, until 36 B.C.E., he lived amid the Babylonian Jews, who paid him every mark of respect. In that year Herod, who feared that Hyrcanus might induce ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- for hundreds of years. It fell to the Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar starting in 572 B.C.E. The Babylonian rule of the city came to an end ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- and thus gain eternal life is found in various Babylonian legends. In the Amarna tablets, Adapa, the first man, is the son of Ea, god of wisdom, who has ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- from the period of Solomon up through the Babylonian exile. These various texts were brought together by scribes working over a long period of time ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- unwisely showed his treasure stores to visiting Babylonian diplomats, an act which the prophet condemned, predicting that Hezekiah's treasures and ...20 KB (3,298 words) - 11:58, 22 January 2024
- god Marduk and his dragon, from a Babylonian cylinder seal]] Scholars have attempted to uncover the true source of dragon legends since reports ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- thought (all of which emerged after the Babylonian captivity), including the importance of rewards and punishments, the belief in a perfected ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Psalm 137:1 speaks in the past tense of the Babylonian exile when it states: "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion."]] ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
