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Jehovah's Witnesses, whose early teachings were strongly influenced by Adventism but have since diverged, [55] believe that the Whore of Babylon represents "the world empire of false religion", [56] referring to all other religious groups including, but not limited to, Christendom. [57]
Semiramis, a legendary figure based on the life of Shammuramat, depicted as an armed Amazon in an eighteenth-century Italian illustration. Semiramis (/ s ə ˈ m ɪr ə m ɪ s, s ɪ-, s ɛ-/; [1] [page needed] Syriac: ܫܲܡܝܼܪܵܡ Šammīrām, Armenian: Շամիրամ Šamiram, Greek: Σεμίραμις, Arabic: سميراميس Samīrāmīs) was the legendary [2] [3] Lydian-Babylonian [4 ...
The queen in this story, depicted here between Daniel and Belshazzar, has been identified with Nitocris. Nitocris of Babylon (c. 550 BC) is an otherwise unknown queen regnant [1] of Babylon described by Herodotus in his Histories. According to Histories of Herodotus, among sovereigns of Babylon two were women, Semiramis and Nitocris. [2]
Revelation 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse to John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3]
The translation of the Nabonidus Cylinder of Sippar was made by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, author of, "The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556-539 B.C." [4] [5] [i.1-7] I, Nabonidus, the great king, the strong king, the king of the universe, the king of Babylon, the king of the four corners, the caretaker of Esagila and Ezida, for whom Sin and Ningal in his mother's womb decreed a royal fate as ...
Babylon, a computer dictionary and translation program. מורפיקס , an online Hebrew English dictionary by Melingo. New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations, compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 [12]
The most common spelling of Zarpanitu's name in cuneiform was d zar-pa-ni-tum. [2] It is romanized as Ṣarpānītu instead by Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, [3] but this choice has been criticized by Wilfred G. Lambert, who points out that while cuneiform does not differentiate between the sounds z and ṣ, supplementary evidence for the former option is provided both by various scholarly ...
Isaiah 40-55 is known as "Deutero-Isaiah" and dates from the time of the Israelites' exile in Babylon. Chapter 47 concerns the fall of Babylon, [2] which is personified as a woman, "the virgin daughter of Babylon", "daughter of the Chaldeans", no longer to be called "the Lady of Kingdoms" or "a Lady for ever". [3]