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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 ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
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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 ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 04:29, 31 July 2022
- 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 ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
