1.(Placename) the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia: first settled around 3000 bc. See alsoHanging Gardens of Babylon 2.(Protestantism)offensive(in Protestant polemic) the Roman Catholic Church, regarded as the seat of luxury and corruption ...
doi:10.1080/00263209808701188Elie KedourieTaylor & Francis GroupMiddle Eastern StudiesThe Jews of Babylon and Baghdad." Elie Kedourie CBE, FBA, 1926y1992: History, Philosophy, Politics, edited by Sylvia Kedourie, 11y23. London: Frank Cass....
But in Babylonia too the persecution gained foothold; Firuz "the wicked" (Ḥul. 62b) put the exilarch Huna Mari, son of Mar Zuṭra I., to death; and the Jews, coming under immediate Persian domination, underwent a year of suffering, 468, which in the Talmud is called "the year...
The Jews in Babylonia in the Time of Ezra and Nehemiah According to Babylonian Inscriptions 作者: 1878-, Daiches Samuel 出版社: Hardpress Publishing页数: 48ISBN: 9781314632651豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到
Papyri from Egypt constitute the largest body of material in Official Aramaic, among which those of a Jewish military colony at Elephantine are of particular interest for the light they shed on the religious beliefs and practices of this group of Jews in the Achaemenid Empire. The language of ...
Baruch and the Jews in Babylon - These are the words of the book that Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah son of Zedekiah son of Hasadiah son of
1, 2, 50 sq. The Jews believe it is a cabalistic mode of writing by the method known as "Athbash" (q.v.). SEE SHISHAK. ⇒"Babylon." topical outline.The word "Babel," besides its original application to the tower (Ge 11:9), and its usual one (in the original) to the ...
4 Soothly Joakim was full rich, and had a garden nigh his house; and the Jews came to him, for he was the most worshipful of (or than) all (the others). [Forsooth Joakim was full rich, and to him was a garden nigh to his house; and Jews came together to him, for he was ...
For instance, the account of the robber kingdom of the two Jewish leaders Anilaeus and Asinaeus, which is recorded by Josephus, thematises the pagan images worshipped by Anilaeus's Gentile wife and its disastrous impact on the Jews. Even though Jews are not themselves implicated in idolatry...
Each people was permitted to carry back with it its ancestral gods. The Jews alone had no images to take; the sacred vessels of the temple of Jerusalem were accordingly given to them. It was a faithful remnant that returned to the land of their fathers, consisting mostly of priests and Le...