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- going back thousands of years to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi Code of Hammurabi. Under this ancient Babylonian code (created ca. 1780 ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- ===Middle Ages and Avignon era (the "Babylonian captivity") === The period when antipopes were most numerous was during the struggles ...20 KB (3,042 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- a political liability or possibly even a Babylonian agent. In any case, Jeremiah ... last king. Having been appointed by the Babylonian authorities, Zedekiah was ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- absorbed into Judaism during the Babylonian Exile, and subsequently ... in angels was learned during the Babylonian captivity. According to ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- The origin of the almanac can be traced back to ancient Babylonian ... The modern almanac differs from Babylonian, Ptolemaic and Zij tables ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- with them both Rabbinic Judaism and the Babylonian Talmudic culture that underlies ... in the early sixth century B.C.E., "Babylonian Jews" had always been ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- stemming from the Babylonian captivity and the invasion of the Assyrian empire. It is well known that Jesus was born as a Jew, and grew up in ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- though it has been suggested that he may have been a Hellenized Babylonian. ... equations used by Diophantus go back to Babylonian mathematics. For this reason ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Ancient Egypt. One of his brothers joined the Babylonian army and fought under Nebuchadrezzar II. It is believed that Alcaeus eventually returned to ...8 KB (1,188 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- ===Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh the story of the Flood is told ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 19:36, 24 May 2024
- the Ten Commandments (Pesiḳ. R. 21). In the Babylonian Talmud three conversations are related, in which Joshua silences the emperor's mockery ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 05:05, 7 May 2024
- has been lost for modern civilization. Babylonian writing was used internationally ... cultural spheres, for example, in the Babylonian Empire with the Hammurabi ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- of Judah in the years after the Babylonian captivity. It is historically regarded as a continuation of the Book of Ezra, such that many Jewish ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel. ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- degrees, minutes and seconds comes from the Babylonian's base sixty system of numeration. The first recorded use of trigonometry came from ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- , Hammurabi (who established the Old Babylonian state), Ashur-uballit I ... were used until the end of the Neo-Babylonian period. Old Aramaic, which ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- First Temple, because the dangers of Babylonian conquest were imminent ... in Ge'ez (which is taken from pre-Babylonian captivity Hebrew), inscriptions ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- between Amenhotep III and the Babylonian king Kadeshman-Enlil shows ... of the period. Letters from the Babylonian king Kadashman-Enlil I ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- Jeremiah urged accommodation with the Babylonian Empire, which he saw as ... Jonah – Probably written after the period of Babylonian exile, this ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- second of arc are sexagesimal subunits of the Babylonian unit. One Babylonian unit = 60° = π/3 rad ≈ 1.047197551 rad. *The grad, also called ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
