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    Hellenistic Babylon. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-9042914490. Boiy, Tom (2011). "The Reigns of the Seleucid Kings According to the Babylon King List". Journal...
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    Boiy, T. (2004). Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Vol. 136. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. p. 233. ISBN 9789042914490...
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    19 November 2022. Boiy, T. (2004). Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. p. 101. ISBN 978-90-429-1449-0. Turchin, Peter;...
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    century. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian...
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    from the city of Babylon in the latter half of the second millennium BC and who belonged to the same family that ran the kingdom of Babylon between 1595 and...
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    profit of both rulers and subjects. Following the Persian conquest of Babylon, Cyrus issued the Edict of Restoration, in which he authorized and encouraged...
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  • Greek scholar, historian, and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, under...
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    established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, the year later used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire. The rise of Seleucus in Babylon threatened the eastern...
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    Šamaš-šuma-ukin (category 7th-century BC kings of Babylon)
    Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, meaning "Shamash has established the name"), was king of Babylon as a vassal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 668 BC to his death in 648...
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  • near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some 69 km (43 mi) north of Babylon and 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Baghdad. The city's ancient name, Sippar...
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    for the western half of his empire, and the Eastern Aramaic dialect of Babylon became the official standard. In 1955, Richard Frye questioned the classification...
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    Babylon, and is of such importance that he alone is named as being consulted on behalf of the dying Alexander. The presence of this temple in Babylon...
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    Fifteenth-Century Church of the East". Syriac in its Multi-Cultural Context. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 265–276. ISBN 9789042931640. Chabot, Jean-Baptiste...
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    was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before moving to Rome where he did much...
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    latter being considered an epithet and indicating that he was born in Babylon. Another oral tradition, or mishnah, records that Nehemiah was blamed for...
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  • Kingdom of Judah by the Neo-Babylonian Empire (586 BCE). Initially exiled to Babylon, upon the defeat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire by the Achaemenid Empire...
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    defined by 1) near Eshnunna, 2) near Sippar, 3) not far from Kish and Babylon, 4) near the Tigris River, and 5) not far from the Diyala River – all within...
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    Iron Age Moab and Neighbouring Areas: In Honour of Michèle Daviau (PDF). Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA: Peeters. pp. 27–45. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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    he indicates this, calling the city more figuratively Babylon by these: "She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings and so does...
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  • final stage was the addition of a few extra laws following the Fall of Babylon to the Achaemenid Empire in 539 and the return of some (in fact only a...
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    Aramaic Language in the Achaemenid Period: A Study in Linguistic Variation. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789068317404. Folmer, Margaretha (2012). "Imperial...
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  • the return from Babylon: 444  (although some scholars suggest that chapters 55–66 were written by Deutero-Isaiah after the fall of Babylon). This orderly...
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    installed his daughter Šumšani as ēntum-priestess), Sabium of Babylon, Samsu-iluna of Babylon, who called himself "beloved of Shamash and Aya," one of the...
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    Edward (2000). The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908598. Sader, Hélène (2010). "The Aramaeans...
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    its foundational text, Augustinus, which was published posthumously in Leuven in 1640. The work was first popularised by Jansen's friend Abbot Jean du...
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  • of Assyria, and his rebellious brother Shamash-shum-ukin, governor of Babylon, who claimed the right to rule the entire empire. The Puqudu, along with...
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    Bretschneider, Van Vyve & Leuven 2009, p. 5. Liverani 2013, p. 123. Stieglitz 2002, p. 219. Bretschneider, Van Vyve & Leuven 2009, p. 7. Archi & Biga 2003...
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    in: Ougarit, un anniversaire, Bilans et recherches en cours, Peeters, Leuven-Paris-Bristol, p. 579: "...the Level VII Palace [was destroyed] by Hattusili...
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    Cuijk. He received his bachelor's degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, later attending Yale University, where he received his master's degree...
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    astronomical events of 75 AD and comes from Babylon. It provides a terminus post quem, at least for Babylon. Hommel, Fritz (1897). The Ancient Hebrew Tradition...
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