Search results for "Babylonian" - New World Encyclopedia
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- greater number of Rabbis lived in Babylon, the Babylonian Talmud had precedence if the two were found in conflict. Orthodox Jews and Conservative ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- After the Jews returned from the Babylonian exile and the prophetic institution faded, a new form of asceticism evolved in protest to the worldliness ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- seconds. The traditional system, originally Babylonian, has 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes of arc (also called arcminutes) in a degree, and 60 seconds ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Temple of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. After the Babylonian Exile, the Deuteronomic code seems to have been taken more seriously, but examples of its enforcement ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- legend is found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud (pages 9a–9b), which identifies 15 specific unusual translations made by the scholars ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating two distinct classes of musical instruments due to division of labor and the ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- to cave drawings in France. Early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, Ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible. ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- " which makes allusion to the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people in the sixth century B.C.E. The Rastafari liken the injustice of slavery ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- Avignon Papacy—was also called the Babylonian Captivity of the Pope, in reference to the Israelites' enslavement in biblical times. The ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- Luther’s next tract, on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, ... who reconstructed Judaism after its Babylonian captivity, Luther sought ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- the Sassanid period, producing the Babylonian Talmud. Their cultural ... abroad. He also befriended a Babylonian rabbi called Shmuel. This ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- to the throne after the return of Israel from Babylonian captivity. Thus, the Messiah is given the title "Son of David," and his role continues ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- with eating the entire animal at one time (Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 56b); this law applies even to non-Jews and is part of the Noahide Laws. Some ...26 KB (4,023 words) - 19:18, 4 June 2024
- For example, one legend in the Babylonian Talmud describes Titus ... [https://halakhah.com/gittin/gittin_56.html Gittin 56b] Babylonian ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- of Symbolist imagery, as do the Babylonian scenes from Griffith's Intolerance. Symbolist imagery lived on longest in the horror film; as ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- as Achan. He admits having taken a costly Babylonian garment, as well as silver and gold, and his confession is verified by the finding of the treasure ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- alkali, and cassia oil—was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 B.C.E. The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 B.C.E.) indicates that ancient ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period (fourteenth – twelfth centuries B.C.E.). Oriental Institute ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
