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  • In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ... During the first centuries of the "Old Babylonian" period ...
    19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
  • The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of ...
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  • During the geonic period (589-1038 C.E.), the Babylonian academies ... The title of gaon came to be applied to the heads of the two Babylonian ...
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  • the age of 18, near the beginning of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. Jeconiah/Jehoiachin ... was removed from office by the Babylonian army of King Nebuchadnezzar ...
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  • Gedaliah (died c. 585 B.C.E. or later) was the Jewish governor of Judah under Babylonian rule after the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah in ...
    11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
  • further qualification, refer to the Babylonian recension. ... "Talmud Yerushalmi"), and the Babylonian Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד ...
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  • Babylon. He became the first king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon ... Though many cultures co-existed in Mesopotamia, Babylonian culture ...
    13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
  • He donated his valuable collection of Babylonian, Sabaean, and Sassanian ... languages of the empire: Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite. Rawlinson ...
    10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
  • Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B.C.E. Although his background is uncertain ...
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  • the heavens is being denoted. In the old-Babylonian period, i.e. before Hammurabi ... remained an inherent part of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion. It also ...
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  • prominence as a member of the triad of Babylonian gods, together with An ... the deep heavens. However, in later Babylonian mythology, it was the younger ...
    12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
  • script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. ... by side, Old Persian and Elamite, and Babylonian above them. The inscription ...
    13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
  • king of Babylon near the end of the Babylonian exile of the Jews. There ... perils. Bel was an important figure of Babylonian idolatry as depicted in ...
    11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
  • inspired great devotion in the ancient Babylonian empire, as evidenced by ... of some lost story about Isthar and the Babylonian deity Marduk. Their names ...
    12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
  • The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of ...
    18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
  • In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ... During the first centuries of the "Old Babylonian" period ...
    19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
  • The earliest trigonometry, used by the Babylonian astronomers and their Greek successors, was based on chords of a circle. A chord of length ...
    6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
  • Mesopotamia that fed into the later Babylonian Civilization. Women appear ... 1000 B.C.E. when it was replaced by the Babylonian language which was used ...
    13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
  • Samaritans and Jews divided after the Babylonian exile because the Samaritans ... However, when the Jews returned from Babylonian exile, they rejected the ...
    12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
  • the cities of Mesopotamia. However, Babylonian civilization did not reach ... established. There are no extant Babylonian texts that mention the ...
    11 KB (1,741 words) - 20:50, 21 January 2024
  • merged with that of Ishtar. In later Babylonian astral mythology, Sin, ... In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, it is with Shamash's blessing ...
    13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
  • In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. ...
    16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023

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