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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Babylonia"”.
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Aramaic and Mandean Magic and Their Demonology
… bowls and texts appear to date from Sassanian Babylonia(1
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The Uses of ‘Bēlu’ and ‘Marduk’ in Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and other Sources from the First Millennium BC
… primary sources of different types and from both Babylonia and Assyria, I have been able to identify a distribution in the usage of the two names which not only sheds light on this particular case, but also goes to the heart of Mesopotamian concepts of divinity. Primarily - although there is …
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The Book of Daniel in Light of the Ancient Near Eastern Literary and Material Finds: an Archaeological Perspective
… have closer affinity to the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Persian periods than to the later periods.</p> <p>Chapter 3 concentrates on Nebuchadnezzar's administration over Judah. His political career led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the capture of part of its population and resources. …
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Hellenistic astrology as a case study of 'cultural translation'
… Astrology, however, was not taken over from Babylonia per se, but was an assimilation and invention at the same time. This has led some scholars to argue that Hellenistic astrology was an invention in its own right and its philosophical rational and doctrine of interpretation are Hellenistic …
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As Below So Above: Reconstructing the Neo-Babylonian Worldview
… evidence how the early first millennium BCE Neo-Babylonians thought, reasoned, and wrote in order to partially reconstruct the shared, generally held worldview of the Neo-Babylonian people using the transdisciplinary approach of worldview analysis. Worldviews are what we use to think with, not …
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Comparative study of Judaism and Shinto
… along with inner spiritual achievment. Ancient Babylonia with its world-famous hanging gardens excelled in magnificent, golden splendor, of which the world up to that time and since has hardly dared to dream. The silver kingdom of the Medo-Persians under Darius was only slightly less …
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A Reassessment of the Excavations at Tall Safut
… show connections with the empires of Assyria and Babylonia, evidence of the little traditions of local elites being influenced by the great traditions of Neo-Assyria.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The study carried out from the Tall Safut material clearly shows the importance of the site for more …
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«That Land Became Mine» Baktria, Northeastern Central Asia, the Teispid- Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-327 BCE)
… has been neglected in favor of contexts, such as Babylonia or Egypt, which are better covered by the extant evidence. In recent years, however, there has been a significant reversal of this trend. The publication of the results of a massive survey of Eastern Afġānistān (Gardin et al., …