“The Book of Isaiah and the Neo-Babylonian Period” by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer investigates the “black hole” in the book that is the Babylonian Exile from three perspectives. First, it analyzes how the ...

Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian culture for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat ...

The Jewish community of Syria has ancient roots, tracing back to the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE. Over time, Jews adapted the Arabic dialects of their neighbors, but Judeo-Syrian Arabic stood ...

Satlow, Michael L and Sperling, Michael 2024. Social network analysis of the Babylonian Talmud. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 39, Issue. 3, p. 968. In this book, Monika Amsler explores ...

What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old Babylonian period, between 1900 and ...

Several of these ancient scratch pads have been found at Kish and nearby Babylon, both of which were major areas of early mathematics education. While this particular tablet is blank on the back ...