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/ˌbæbəˈɫoʊniən/
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NOUN
- an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
- the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture
Babylonian religion
How To Use Babylonian In A Sentence
- Psalm 137, one of the most evocative in the psalter, speaks from the perspective of the Israelites driven into exile and slavery after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
- Hammurabi Babylonian king 1792–1750 B.C., great warrior and codifier of law, conquered Mari. The Trojan War
- The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II supposedly created the terraced gardens around 600 B.C. at his royal palace in the Mesopotamian desert.
- The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Our Theo was somewhat of a Bible scholar, and an expert on the Talmud, the teachings and deliberations of the Babylonian rabbis in exile. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- In fact there are fascinating glimpses of the Babylonians coming to terms with the fact that division by 7 would lead to an infinite sexagesimal fraction.
- Because in fourteen of these traditions the person who quotes her is the fourth-century Babylonian amora Abbaye (278 – 338), it is usually assumed in scholarly circles that she was his mother, and that Em is a description (mother) rather than a name. Female Personalities in the Babylonian Talmud.
- This period is known as the saros, a Greek word meaning ‘repetition’ that is itself derived from the Babylonian sharu.
- Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.
- To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4