In her new book, Jerusalem Through the Ages, Israeli archaeologist Jodi Magness, a graduate of the Hebrew University of ...

The Babylonian exile had a profound impact on Judaism. In the minds of the exiles, it must have seemed like the last remnants ...

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The king had conquered Jerusalem in the early sixth century B.C. and exiled the Hebrews to Babylon. The Bible says that he also stole sacred objects from the Jewish temple and took them back to ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

Solomon had the honor of building the Temple in Jerusalem, the city his father David established as the capital of Israel.

fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , ...

The tablet also confirms the Babylonian's belief in the God of creation Marduk and other mythical monsters such as scorpion-man and a lion-headed bird called Anzu. The ancient Babylonians had ...

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 25, No. 2, 1906 A Babylonian Parallel to the Story of Jo ...

Ossendrijver, Mathieu 2021. Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context. Introduction. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Vol. 8 ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...