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  • and Misharu as a judge of the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder. The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus ...
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  • 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
  • B.C.E. when Mesopotamia is united under Babylonian rule. ... the culture god Enki (absorbed into Babylonian mythology as the god Ea), the ...
    37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
  • 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
  • In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... represent shedim are the shedu of Babylonian mythology. These figures were ...
    32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
  • 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
  • five great epics combined: The ancient Babylonian Gilgamesh (3,000 verses ... Though the Epic of Gesar contains elements of ancient Tibetan mythology ...
    21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
  • upon a combination of Persian and Babylonian mythology.Van Voorst, 8.Constantin ... The Babylonian Talmud contains several references that have been traditionally ...
    41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 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 ...
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  • Modern histories have replaced mythology with anthropology. Scholars ... By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating ...
    26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
  • 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
  • According to Irish mythology, Noah had a son named Bith who was not ... the mid-sixth century B.C.E., during the Babylonian exile; some modern scholars ...
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  • Ea, also called Enki, one of the great Babylonian gods, has also been mentioned ... a common national identity, religious mythology, and origin story. In any ...
    25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 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
  • Rank was an expert in philosophy, literature, and mythology, and brought ... found in different cultural traditions: Babylonian (story of kings Gilgamesh ...
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  • In Roman mythology, Mars was the god of war and patron of warriors ... In Babylonian astronomy, the planet was named after Nergal, their ...
    47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
  • 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
  • 137:1 speaks in the past tense of the Babylonian exile when it states: ... *Human, Dirk J. Psalms and Mythology. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old ...
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  • Rashi's massive commentary covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud. It has been included in every published version of the Talmud since ...
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  • 99 are missing) and are inscribed in Old Babylonian on an eight-foot tall stele ... on his reign as well as insights into Goguryeo mythology. ...
    21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022

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