Babylonian (Of or relating to Babylonia or Babylon)

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• Babylonia — Ancient Mesopotamia Euphrates · Tigris Sumer Eridu · Kish · Uruk · …   Wikipedia

• Babylonian — I. noun Date: 1540 1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Babylonia or Babylon 2. the form of the Akkadian language used in ancient Babylonia II. adjective Date: 1567 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Babylonia or Babylon, the Babylonians,… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Babylonia — • Includes geography, history, and biblical references Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Babylonia     Babylonia     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Babylonian — ► NOUN ▪ a person from Babylon or Babylonia, an ancient city and kingdom in Mesopotamia. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to Babylon or Babylonia …   English terms dictionary

• Babylonian law — Archaeological material for the study of Babylonian law is singularly extensive. So called contracts exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts, and most important of all, actual legal… …   Wikipedia

• Babylonian — [ˌbabɪ ləʊnɪən] noun 1》 an inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia, an ancient city and kingdom in Mesopotamia. 2》 the dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Babylon. adjective relating to Babylon or Babylonia …   English new terms dictionary

• Babylonian — /bæbəˈloʊniən/ (say babuh lohneeuhn) adjective 1. relating to Babylon or Babylonia. 2. sinful. –noun 3. an inhabitant of ancient Babylonia. 4. a language of Babylonia, especially the Semitic language of the Akkadian group …  

• Belus (Babylonian) — Belus or Belos in classical Greek or classical Latin texts (and later material based on them) in a Babylonian context refers to the Babylonian god Bel Marduk. Though often identified with Greek Zeus and Latin Jupiter as Zeus Belos or Jupiter… …   Wikipedia

• Nabonidus Chronicle — The Nabonidus Chronicle The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles incribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets. It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo …   Wikipedia

• NABONIDUS — (Nabû naʾid), last king of Babylon (556–539 B.C.E.), son of a governor, Nabû balaṭsu iqbi, and a votaress of Sin. A native of haran , Nabonidus was a military commander in his sixties when he ascended the throne of Babylon. The principal… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Ten Lost Tribes — The phrase Ten Lost Tribes of Israel refers to the ancient Tribes of Israel that disappeared from the Biblical account after the Kingdom of Israel was destroyed, enslaved and exiled by ancient Assyria. [… …   Wikipedia