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- [[Image:Talmud Babli bokhylle.jpg|thumb|225px|An edition of the Babylonian ... especially the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud, with associated ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- In the Second Temple period, from the end of the Babylonian Exile ... Rabbi (the Palestinian form) or Rab (the Babylonian form). Whether the title ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- co-opted as a placeholder in the same Babylonian system. In a tablet unearthed ... The Babylonian placeholder was not a true zero because it was not ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- in three different languages, Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite. Grotefend took on the task of deciphering the first language, Persian. ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- *Talmud Bavli, The Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud: ... *Talmud Bavli, The Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud: ...20 KB (3,188 words) - 16:40, 4 June 2023
- state of the Kingdom of Judah. During the Babylonian Exile, the Edomites took advantage of the situation to plunder Jerusalem and expropriate large ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- In 1901 C.E., a French explorer found at Susa an ancient set of Babylonian ... the later documents (the Mishnah and the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- *Sargon, et al. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. State archives of Assyria, v. 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- It was thus only after the Babylonian exile that this priestly religion ... can be traced to controversies in the Babylonian Jewish communities during ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- late seventh century B.C.E. After the Babylonian exile, the Levites were ... not last past his own reign, after the Babylonian exile, they became the ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- *Babylonian astrology *Horoscopic astrology and its specific subsets: ... indigenous forms of astrology. This Babylonian astrology came to Greece ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- their nation during and after the Babylonian exile. ===The Council of El=== ... the-Earth with a form of the name of the Babylonian water god Ea, lord of the ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- of Jerusalem up to its destruction and the Babylonian exile of the Jews. One significant change from the version of Chronicles is that 1 Esdras ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- After the Babylonian exile, debates arose among the Jews regarding ... The Babylonian exile brought "Israel" into even closer contact ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- place its writing around the time of the Babylonian exile. ... The Sumerian text Ludlul Bêl Nimeqi, also known as the Babylonian Job, ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- The word “vampire” is mentioned in Babylonian demonology, and the even ... Vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are mentioned in early Babylonian ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- on that of the Enuma Elish or similar Babylonian documents." ... By this means, author/redactors of the Babylonian exile were asserting the ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the two Talmuds (Babylonian and Jerusalem), and the early Midrash compilations. They were intended to clarify the written Torah. ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- to the destruction of humankind. The Babylonian Talmud, for instance, states ... the aforementioned events. In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Levi asserts ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- scholars and scribes to copy texts, mainly from Babylonian sources. Many of these would have been inscribed onto wax boards which because of their organic ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- Egyptian urns from around 3000 B.C.E., and Babylonian scrolls recording the use of vinegar date even earlier, to around 5000 B.C.E. Known as “poor man’s ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 20:25, 3 May 2023
- is shown at the far north, in the Babylonian Empire of Hammarabi. It ... chief Assyrian god, equivalent to the Babylonian Marduk, and it is from ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- and acknowledged the authority of Babylonian scholarship. ... and the gaon of Pumbedita, another Babylonian Talmudic academy, to give ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- As long as 500 years after her death, during the Babylonian era, it was used as a text copied by students learning to be scribes in the edubba, or scribal ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- of third century, Manichaeanism followers and the Babylonian Christians settlers of fourth Century, the seventh Century Syrian settlement of Mar Sabor ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- example, the Old Testament Laws of Moses and the Babylonian Law of Hammurabi, were written for the purpose of stabilizing one's own cultural practices ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- plays, so scholars have identified Canaanite or Babylonian influences on some of the literature of the Old Testament, and have developed various theories ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or food into other forms for consumption by ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 06:18, 1 April 2024
- History") during the Babylonian exile of the sixth century ... (meaning notably, but not only, the Babylonian exile) upon his people ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px|The numbering of ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- Ebla (Arabic: عبيل، إيبلا, modern Tell Mardikh, Syria) was an ancient city about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, traditionally attributed ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- cited examples are the Akkadian-Babylonian creation epic, the "Enuma Elish," and the Hurrian-Hittite "Kingship in Heaven." ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- off an Egyptian force preparing to attack the Babylonian army. *Battle of Megiddo of 1918 C.E.: Fought during World War I between Allied troops ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- and Misharu as a judge of the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder. The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works. The best known of these portrays the last prophecies of Moses, given to ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- Ea, also called Enki, one of the great Babylonian gods, has also been mentioned ... of Kings, and it was not until after the Babylonian exile that monotheism took ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- beginning what became known as the "Babylonian captivity of the Popes ... . This laid the ground for what Martin Luther called the "babylonian ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- operated side by side with their Egyptian or Babylonian counterparts. This would have been a boon for merchants and traders as trade would now have been ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- the Second Temple tradition after the Babylonian exile of the Jews. However, this Ezra is also called "Salathiel" elsewhere in the ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- written and compiled in the period after the Babylonian exile. ==Proverbs== [[Image:Wisdom-and folly.jpg|thumb|250px|"Wisdom has built her ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- An adhesive is a material that can adhere (stick) to other materials and help attach them together. The state of attachment is known as adhesion ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- the tale celebrates the triumph of the Babylonian deities Marduk (Mordecai) and Ishtar (Esther) and/or the renewal of life in the spring. Although ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- the mid-sixth century B.C.E., during the Babylonian exile; some modern scholars ... can be observed readily in Sumerian and Babylonian epics, e.g. as in Lugal ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- Ancient Jewish liturgical prayers of both Babylonian and Spanish origin were also uncovered, as well as a great deal of material dealing with the history ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- the Code of Hammurabi, first King of the Babylonian Empire, who had the laws ... the top of this stele is an image of a Babylonian god (thought to be either ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- B.C.E. when Mesopotamia is united under Babylonian rule. ... (Amorites) who were later to found the Babylonian Empire. Sumerian, however ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. Successive work by Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Henry Rawlinson, and others resulted in translation ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- his creation of the mountains. In one Babylonian investiture ritual, as Ninmenna (Lady of the Diadem), she placed the golden crown on the king ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- of the demon were found in ancient Babylonian culture, eventually influencing ... Babylonian texts depict Lilith as the prostitute of the goddess Ishtar ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- * The Babylonian King, Hammurabi, was in power. * The Minoan civilization was reaching its peak in the Mediterranean. * England's Stonehenge ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 17:40, 9 November 2023
- of other deities. Thus, by the end of the Babylonian captivity of Judah in the Tanakh, Judaism is strictly monotheistic. ===Christianity=== ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- one reigning queen) until the time of the Babylonian exile in the sixth century B.C.E. For this accomplishment, however, the Bible gives credit to ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- ethic eventually prevailed during the Babylonian captivity and thereafter ... considerably later era: of the period of Babylonian exile even as late as the ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- actually the ruler of the later Babylonian Empire, as every educated Jew knew perfectly well. Nor was his army ever driven back by the Israelites ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- to an end, resulting in the ascendancy of the Babylonian Talmud, rather than the Palestinian version, in later Jewish tradition. In Jerusalem ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 2023
- and most of the aristocracy into Babylonian captivity. Nebuchadrezzar ... When the Jews were exiled, first by the Babylonian Empire about 2 ...43 KB (6,551 words) - 12:27, 7 May 2024
- century and possibly not until after the Babylonian exile. ... of Israel, from Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile. University of Chicago ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- Biblical narrative of Ham in a racial way. The Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b states, "Our Rabbis taught: Three copulated in the ark, and they ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- singing in the Temple during the period of Babylonian exile: "How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?" The second chapter ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- called Ishtar Terra, after Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love, and is ... on human culture. It is described in Babylonian cuneiformic texts such ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however, derive their name not from ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- King David through the beginning of the Babylonian exile. Kings was originally ... Merodach-baladan, the son of the Babylonian king, sends get-well gifts ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
- based upon a combination of Persian and Babylonian mythology.Van Voorst, 8 ... The Babylonian Talmud contains several references that have been traditionally ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- water and fresh water, respectively. In the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, Tiamat and her tyrannical henchman Kingu are defeated and slain by the storm ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- follow the Jerusalem Talmud over the Babylonian Talmud It should be noted that on an individual level there is a considerable range in the level ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- that the Maharal's family descended from the Babylonian exilarchs and were therefore also from the Davidic dynasty. He received his formal education ...15 KB (2,356 words) - 08:30, 12 May 2024
- writings of "Second Isaiah" during the Babylonian Exile rather than the more ancient Isaiah of Jerusalem. * Jeremiah 33:14-26--A messianic ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- sources up though the time of the Babylonian exile, it is unconfirmed thereafter. Indeed, it constitutes the only known list detailing the supposed ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- concept of the Messiah arose during the Babylonian exile (c. 597 – 538 or ... in the Book of Isaiah during the Babylonian exile—portrays Cyrus ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- him and made insulting allusions to his Babylonian origin, they were unsuccessful in their attempt (Shab. 31a). As with most rabbis, stories of ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- the Jews who had returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile, calling them to repentance, faithfulness, and hope. Malachi is particularly concerned ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- quot; (Kiddushin 30b).I. Epstein, The Babylonian Talmud (New York: Soncino ... * Epstein, Isadore. The Babylonian Talmud. New York, NY: Soncino Press ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- These centers also developed the Babylonian Talmud, which came to be seen as more authoritative than its Palestinian counterpart as the key ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- to have understood, was probably known to the Babylonian Jews as early as the eighth century. Abraham learned from the sighing of the tamarisk-tree that ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- heroes, found in different cultural traditions: Babylonian (story of kings Gilgamesh and Sargon), Hindu (myth of hero Karna), Persian (story of King ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- of Kings, and it was not until after the Babylonian exile that monotheism took ... of Israel, From Its Beginnings To the Babylonian Exile. Chicago: University ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- planet. Although no records have survived, late Babylonian records from the seventh century B.C.E. refer to much earlier records. The Babylonians called ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- rebuilt after the Jews of Judah to returned from Babylonian exile. The Samaritans, having assassinated the Greek governor of Syria in 332 or 331 B.C ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- *Babylonian: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, Xisuthrus *Greek: Deucalion *Toltec: Toptlipetlocali A direct connection to the story of Noah and his Flood ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- 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
