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- L. W. King, Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (London: Luzac and ... A late Babylonian chronicle says: In his old age, all lands revolted ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian Captivity in the first ... Zerubbabel was born during the period of Babylonian exile. If the ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- of Hermes was an "Oriental deity of Babylonian extraction" represented ... However, more recent classical scholarship makes no mention of Babylonian ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- in "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from around 608 ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- of Babylon and the emergence of the new Babylonian Empire. The Greeks knew ... which was the capital of the first Babylonian Empire and still served ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from around 608 ... of Judah in the early part of the Babylonian period (ca. 650-598 B.C.E.). ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- of the Haggadic material in the Babylonian Talmud together with commentaries ... of the Haggadic material in the Babylonian Talmud together with commentary. ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Though the Babylonian/Assyrian god Dumuzi was known by a variety of ... As the names of Babylonian gods often offer insight into the character ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- of his students or different rabbis. The Babylonian Talmud asserts that Elisha ... day journey). Both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmuds agree here, and ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 09:06, 30 December 2021
- Ezekiel during the first stages of the Babylonian exile in the early sixth ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- B.C.E.), but also various Old Babylonian fragments exist. The story ... Enki, who often takes the side of mankind in Babylonian mythology ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- There are two versions of the Talmud—the Babylonian Talmud and the ... the fourth century in Palestine. The Babylonian Talmud was compiled about ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- to inspired the Jews returning from the Babylonian Exile with a view of history ... of the kings of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, and concluding with ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- held out against a series of raids by Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite ... *Babylonian exile *Jeremiah ==References== * Avery, Ben, and Harold ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 20:02, 4 November 2023
- of its eventual disintegration, the Babylonian Empire had not yet risen ... power in the region while the new Babylonian Empire asserted itself ...13 KB (2,117 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- term karabu, Akkadian term kuribu, and Babylonian term karabu; the Assyrian ... In some regions the Assyro-Babylonian term came to refer in particular ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or Mesopotamian creation epic, composed probably in the eighteenth century B ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. He was originally the chief god of the city of Eridu ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- of the Persian Empire, and inscribed in Babylonian (Akkadian) cuneiform on ... Cyrus credited the inspiration of the Babylonian deity Marduk for his policy ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- the Medes and went on to conquer the Babylonian Empire. He wrote the Cyrus ... again without any resistance from the Babylonian armies. Herodotus explains ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- ==Babylonian abacus== Babylonians may have used the abacus for addition ... Some scholars point to a character from the Babylonian cuniform which ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- The Ammonites under King Baalis helped the Babylonian monarch Nebuchadrezzar ... political attitude. They assisted the Babylonian army against the Jews ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- writing continued through the end of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, although ... By 1851, Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Babylonian signs. They ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- === Babylonian sources === Earlier Greek astronomers and mathematicians were influenced by Babylonian ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- into their new lives and pray for the Babylonian king (29). Judah if the nation fought back against Babylonian aggression. Jeremiah found ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- of Jerusalem, and after the subsequent Babylonian captivity of the Kingdom ... that seem to indicate the end of the Babylonian captivity which lasted ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- ===The Babylonian Captivity=== [[Image:Avignon-place-palais.jpg|thumb ... of the long Avignon Papacy, the "Babylonian captivity" (1309–77 ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- "under the shadow of the rising Babylonian power," ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- writer or writers active during the Babylonian exile or shortly afterward. ... details primarily with the period of the Babylonian exile, which began a century ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- [[Image:Queen of the Night (Babylon).jpg|thumb|250px|This Babylonian ... of a more warlike and male-dominated Babylonian culture. This being a relatively ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- eclipsed even that of the heads of the Babylonian academies of the Sura and ... had formerly been connected with the Babylonian yeshivas. He became the ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- *The Babylonian Talmud, c. 600 C.E. *The minor tractates (part of the Babylonian Talmud) ==The Midrash== ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- prophet Zechariah, who prophesied after the Babylonian exile during the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem. The eleventh of the 12 books of ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- were too complacent and willing to adopt Babylonian customs. ... their captivity, but to submit to the Babylonian yoke. Only repentance and ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- treaties and covenants made by the Babylonian kings. His attribute of ... About 550 B.C.E., Nabonidus, the last of the neo-Babylonian kings ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- Biblical references also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish ... *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984 (original 1982). ISBN 0800617568. ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- Old Testament. The book is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when many Jews had been forcibly exiled to Babylon. It revolves around the ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- A Jewish inscription from the post-Babylonian period in Elephantine, ... Antu or Antum is a Babylonian goddess, and seems to be a precursor ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Jerusalem Talmud—in addition to the Babylonian version—which had been ... His glosses on the Babylonian Talmud and Shulchan Aruch are known ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- and the Mediterranean came under the new Babylonian monarchy. The Babylonian ... again urged cooperation with the Babylonian power, which he saw as ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- of sacrifices in Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity (Ezra 3:2-4). Nehemiah, writing after the Babylonian exile, reported a lengthy lapse ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- foreign religious influences during the Babylonian exile. Conversely, Samaritans ... Assyrian invasion of 722 B.C.E. and the Babylonian campaigns culminating in ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It is a record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- exiles returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Exile in the fifth century ... of Israel, from Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile (1960), in which ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- by Joshua. During the early days of the Babylonian exile, the prophet Ezekiel ... probably blended into the Arabic, Babylonian, and Anatolian civilizations ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- or star-worshipers), Etruria, and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers were called Manzazuu or Sha'etemmu, and the spirits they raised were called ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- The Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish begins with a description ... rituals until at least the time of the Babylonian exile. The story of Eve ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- *George, Andrew The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and ... *George, Andrew. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic - Introduction, Critical ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- quot; found in the ancient pre-Babylonian Exile Hebraic tradition. The one remaining passage in Aetius’ Historiography reads: As our soul, being ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- 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) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- 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
- Empire in the eighth century B.C.E. Babylonian domination in the seventh ... Philistine cities became part of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Jeremiah 47 is ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- and the captivity, the fifth between the Babylonian period and the time of ... was followed by the Exodus; the Babylonian captivity was followed ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- his old age. However, Rabbi Nathan the Babylonian, who also took a part in ... Both the Babylonian Talmud and its Palestinian counterpart assume ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- *The Second Temple was built after the return from the Babylonian ... the sanctuaries of Mount Hermon, and the Babylonian idea of the divine abode ...30 KB (4,697 words) - 20:29, 9 May 2024
- as his relationship with the other angels. The Babylonian Talmud mentions Metatron in three places: "Sanhedrin" 38b, "Hagiga" 15a ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- by 600 B.C.E. had already begun using Babylonian concepts in their calculations. ... The Greeks grafted the names of their own gods onto the Babylonian ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- to be a Canaanite version of the Babylonian god Marduk and identical ... exodus from Egypt until well after the Babylonian exile in the sixth century ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- on in Klaus Koch. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. (Philadelphia: ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- |what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian |- |temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. |fortune-telling ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin [http://images.e-daf.com/DafImg.asp?ID ... Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin [http://images.e-daf.com/DafImg.asp?ID ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- [[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