Search results for "Babylonian" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 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
- 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
- period of David's later reign until the Babylonian exile. While we should not accept every judgment of the biblical author at face value, by studying ...3 KB (603 words) - 20:15, 17 May 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
