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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
- *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
- 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
- *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 (4,700 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- 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 (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- 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
- one of the most famous examples of Babylonian architecture. Some of the earliest surviving examples are the broch structures in northern Scotland ...11 KB (1,621 words) - 23:19, 27 April 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 (6,543 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- 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 (2,368 words) - 20:52, 4 October 2022
- 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
- exemplified in the affirmation of Babylonian kingship in the Enuma Elish, of pharaonic rule in many Ancient Egyptian creation accounts, and of ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- than it would be to say that Jewish Talmudism or Babylonian Mandaeanism (both writing in Aramaic, as did Mani, and both originating in roughly the same ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- notably Second Isaiah who wrote during the Babylonian exile. ==Biography== ===Family and Prophetic Call=== Isaiah was the son of Amoz, not to ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer-priests who once lived in the Persian Empire. Today, the word is most commonly ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- of Satan as the Devil in Judaism during the Babylonian captivity, thus explaining why earlier Hebrew scriptures do not mention the Devil. ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- were exiled in an event known as the Babylonian captivity. See, for example, Berlin's summary of Ben Zvi's research (35-37). ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- survival of the Jewish tradition after the Babylonian exile. Some Jews expected both a kingly Messiah of Davidic lineage, and a priestly Messiah, of Aaronic ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- Rashi's massive commentary covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud. It has been included in every published version of the Talmud since ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- and 66-99 are missing) and are inscribed in Old Babylonian on an eight-foot tall stele of black basalt[https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436 ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- As a mixture of Zoroastrianism, the old Babylonian religion of the Ophitic ... 3) Abraham to David; 4) David to the Babylonian captivity; 5) the Babylonian ...65 KB (10,155 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- repute with the rise of the first Babylonian dynasty. 2300 B.C.E., and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 B.C.E. ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- prophet Jeremiah's attitude toward the Babylonian capture of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E., the Pharisees regarded Pompey’s defilement of the Temple ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- In Babylonian astronomy, the planet was named after Nergal, their deity of fire, war, and destruction, most likely due to the planet's reddish ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- which the Indians came in contact with through Babylonian traders. [http://oldestcoins.reidgold.com/article.html#_ednref4 A Case for the World's ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- mention is made of slavery in the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and biblical texts, and slaves were used in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- Bahrain became part of the Babylonian Empire about 600 B.C.E. Bahrain ... or Mashmahig is attested to in the Babylonian Talmud as a port where ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- peoples in Egyptian, Semitic or Babylonian records. *Literary traditions of subsequent civilizations: Especially the Hellenic; such as, e.g., ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- persecution of Jews, according to the Babylonian Talmud. The peace policy was strengthened by the erection of permanent fortifications (limites ...23 KB (3,703 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- other five great epics combined: The ancient Babylonian Gilgamesh (3,000 verses), the Greek Iliad (over 15,000 verses ) and Odyssey (12,000 verses ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- were based on earlier Persian and Babylonian Astronomy, Indian numbers, and Greek sources. Al-Khwārizmī systematized and corrected Ptolemy& ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- greater number of Rabbis lived in Babylon, the Babylonian Talmud had precedence if the two were found in conflict. Orthodox Jews and Conservative ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- After the Jews returned from the Babylonian exile and the prophetic institution faded, a new form of asceticism evolved in protest to the worldliness ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- seconds. The traditional system, originally Babylonian, has 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes of arc (also called arcminutes) in a degree, and 60 seconds ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Temple of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. After the Babylonian Exile, the Deuteronomic code seems to have been taken more seriously, but examples of its enforcement ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- legend is found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud (pages 9a–9b), which identifies 15 specific unusual translations made by the scholars ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating two distinct classes of musical instruments due to division of labor and the ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- to cave drawings in France. Early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, Ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible. ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- " which makes allusion to the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people in the sixth century B.C.E. The Rastafari liken the injustice of slavery ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- Avignon Papacy—was also called the Babylonian Captivity of the Pope, in reference to the Israelites' enslavement in biblical times. The ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- Luther’s next tract, on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, ... who reconstructed Judaism after its Babylonian captivity, Luther sought ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- the Sassanid period, producing the Babylonian Talmud. Their cultural ... abroad. He also befriended a Babylonian rabbi called Shmuel. This ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- to the throne after the return of Israel from Babylonian captivity. Thus, the Messiah is given the title "Son of David," and his role continues ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- For example, one legend in the Babylonian Talmud describes Titus ... [https://halakhah.com/gittin/gittin_56.html Gittin 56b] Babylonian ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- of Symbolist imagery, as do the Babylonian scenes from Griffith's Intolerance. Symbolist imagery lived on longest in the horror film; as ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- as Achan. He admits having taken a costly Babylonian garment, as well as silver and gold, and his confession is verified by the finding of the treasure ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- alkali, and cassia oil—was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 B.C.E. The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 B.C.E.) indicates that ancient ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period (fourteenth – twelfth centuries B.C.E.). Oriental Institute ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- The Babylonian Talmud, [http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t01/t0110.htm tractate Shabbat 21b]. The discussion focuses on Shabbat candles and moves ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Babylonian Exile, at the beginning of the first millennium B.C.E. ==Shared Spiritual Riches and Commonalities ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός, meaning "number") is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- of the name Abi-ramu (Abram) on Babylonian contracts from about 2000 B.C.E. shows at least that the story of Abram's "Chaldean" ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- Nazism, for example, was of the first type, and Babylonian and Egyptian Messianism were of the second type. The Messianic claims of Jesus belonged only ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- to pi or the square root of two. Similarly, Babylonian math texts had always used sexagesimal fractions with great frequency. ====History of irrational ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus) is a sizable ungulate ("hoofed") mammal of the family Equidae and the genus Equus. Among ...30 KB (4,944 words) - 19:37, 21 February 2022
- and to show evidence of influence from the Babylonian creation story Enuma Elish. The account of Genesis 2—in which Adam is created before the ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- I. Epstein, The Babylonian Talmud (New York: Soncino Press, 1948). ... *Epstein, Isidore. The Babylonian Talmud. New York: Soncino Press, 1961. ...66 KB (10,046 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- system in the inscriptions. He argues that Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics owe a debt to the Indus Valley. His book, Vedic Glossary on Indus Seals ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- in both Jewish and Christian tradition since the Babylonian diaspora, following the pattern of the Book of Daniel. In this view, Revelation was created ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- Jews lived in what are now Arab states at least since the Babylonian captivity (597 B.C.E.). In 1945, there were about eight hundred thousand ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- the Code of Hammurabi, which formed the core of Babylonian law. Neither set of laws separated penal codes and civil laws. The similarly significant ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- intended to produce successful hunts. Much of the Babylonian and Egyptian pictorial writing characters appear derived from the same sources. ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Figures that represent shedim are the shedu of Babylonian mythology. These figures were depicted as anthropomorphic, winged bulls, associated with wind ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- The lion was a prominent symbol in both the Old Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian Empire periods. The classic Babylonian lion motif, found as a statue ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- make this clear in describing the role of the Babylonian captivity in the nation's life. Isaiah summarized it when he said: "By his suffering ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- (layer VII, from the later part of the old-Babylonian period) mention people with Hurrian names at the mouth of the Orontes. There is no evidence for ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Early Hebrew religion (before the Babylonian Exile, 538 B.C.E.) affirms the belief in the underground realm of Sheol where people survived for ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- from the Sumerian, Hittite, Sassanian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Elamite cultures (among others), as well as an extensive collection of unique Bronze Age ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- Cyrus II of Persia conquered the Babylonian Empire by 539 B.C.E. and organized the empire into provincial administrations called satrapies. The ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- century B.C.E. Cyrus reversed the policy of his Babylonian predecessors and allowed captured religious icons to be returned to their places of origin ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- Numbers, 29:7; Tractate Yoma, 8:1; ibid. (Babylonian Talmud), 81a). Because, according to the Hebrew Bible, hardship and calamitous circumstances can ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- In spite of many comparisons made with Egyptian, Babylonian and Hittite plans, both of these arrangements remain out of keeping with any remains of earlier ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- [http://www.come-and-hear.com/shabbath/shabbath_31.html Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Shabbath, Folio 31a] Retrieved January 20, 2021. ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- The reign of Edward III coincided with the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the papacy at Avignon. During the wars with France, opposition emerged ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- he was hanged on the eve of the Passover.The Babylonian Talmud, translated I. Epstein Sanhedrin 43a (London: Soncio, 1935), 281. ==Jesus as a ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- statues, the Hellenistic writings of Greco-Babylonian astrology, and the newly developed practice of alchemy. Garth Fowden. The Egyptian Hermes: ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- #039;s religious unity reflected in the Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1309-1377) and its aftermath. The most notable fifteenth-century ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- Seele, 56. Beyond the Euphrates, the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite kings all gave Thutmose gifts, which he alleged to be "tribute" when ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
- 586 B.C.E., Judah was conquered by the Babylonian Empire and Jerusalem and ... Cyrus II of Persia conquered the Babylonian Empire by 539 B.C.E. and ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- * That most mitzvot will no longer be in force (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Niddah 61b and Tractate Shabbat 151b). There is no authoritative answer ...49 KB (8,351 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- temple of E-Sagila, and did much to revive Babylonian culture as well as to extend Hellenistic influence, a process continued by his successors. After ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- recorded history. Biblical, Egyptian, and Babylonian sources record the history of abuse and dependence on alcohol. In some ancient cultures alcohol was ...57 KB (7,925 words) - 23:36, 28 December 2023
- of Jews, displaced from the Middle East after the Babylonian captivity, migrated to the region and settled there after 600 B.C.E., though the majority ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian Medicine, Ayurvedic medicine (in the Indian subcontinent), classical Chinese medicine (predecessor ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the region dwindled because of ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...56 KB (8,181 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- B.C.E., and who worshipped the god Amurru. Early Babylonian inscriptions reveal that all western lands, including Syria and Canaan, were known as "the ...51 KB (7,712 words) - 07:36, 27 February 2023
- with the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires. Cyrus the Great conquered Phoenicia in 539 B.C.E. Phoenicia was divided into four vassal kingdoms ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- Avignon Papacy of 1305–1378, also called the Babylonian Captivity, and the so-called Western Schism that lasted from 1378–1418. The practice of granting ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Babylon (1792-1750 B.C.E.) re-united the region. Babylonian rule covered most of the Tigris-Euphrates river valley from Sumer and the Persian Gulf, and ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- related to "qlipoth" are found in some Babylonian incantations, a fact used as evidence to argue the antiquity of kabbalistic material. ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- The "Roman Empire" (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule from approximately 44 B.C.E. until ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- The concept of the constellation was known to exist during the Babylonian period. Ancient sky watchers imagined that prominent arrangements of ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- came the Avignon residence—the so-called Babylonian captivity of the papacy (1309–1378), a time of good church administration, but of excessive ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanid rule, Jewish presence in the region dwindled because of ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
