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- kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Babylonian Exile, at the beginning of the first millennium B.C.E. ==Shared Spiritual Riches and Commonalities ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός, meaning "number") is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- of the name Abi-ramu (Abram) on Babylonian contracts from about 2000 B.C.E. shows at least that the story of Abram's "Chaldean" ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- Nazism, for example, was of the first type, and Babylonian and Egyptian Messianism were of the second type. The Messianic claims of Jesus belonged only ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- to pi or the square root of two. Similarly, Babylonian math texts had always used sexagesimal fractions with great frequency. ====History of irrational ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus) is a sizable ungulate ("hoofed") mammal of the family Equidae and the genus Equus. Among ...30 KB (4,944 words) - 19:37, 21 February 2022
- and to show evidence of influence from the Babylonian creation story Enuma Elish. The account of Genesis 2—in which Adam is created before the ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- I. Epstein, The Babylonian Talmud (New York: Soncino Press, 1948). ... *Epstein, Isidore. The Babylonian Talmud. New York: Soncino Press, 1961. ...66 KB (10,046 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- system in the inscriptions. He argues that Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics owe a debt to the Indus Valley. His book, Vedic Glossary on Indus Seals ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- in both Jewish and Christian tradition since the Babylonian diaspora, following the pattern of the Book of Daniel. In this view, Revelation was created ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- Jews lived in what are now Arab states at least since the Babylonian captivity (597 B.C.E.). In 1945, there were about eight hundred thousand ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- the Code of Hammurabi, which formed the core of Babylonian law. Neither set of laws separated penal codes and civil laws. The similarly significant ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- intended to produce successful hunts. Much of the Babylonian and Egyptian pictorial writing characters appear derived from the same sources. ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Figures that represent shedim are the shedu of Babylonian mythology. These figures were depicted as anthropomorphic, winged bulls, associated with wind ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- The lion was a prominent symbol in both the Old Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian Empire periods. The classic Babylonian lion motif, found as a statue ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- make this clear in describing the role of the Babylonian captivity in the nation's life. Isaiah summarized it when he said: "By his suffering ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- (layer VII, from the later part of the old-Babylonian period) mention people with Hurrian names at the mouth of the Orontes. There is no evidence for ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Early Hebrew religion (before the Babylonian Exile, 538 B.C.E.) affirms the belief in the underground realm of Sheol where people survived for ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- from the Sumerian, Hittite, Sassanian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Elamite cultures (among others), as well as an extensive collection of unique Bronze Age ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- Cyrus II of Persia conquered the Babylonian Empire by 539 B.C.E. and organized the empire into provincial administrations called satrapies. The ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
