Chaldea

Of Ethiopia, he tells us: "On the other side of Chaldea toward the South is Ethiopia, a great land.

"That's driving Epidaurus and Chaldea very fast," replied the physician with a grin.

Terah left Ur of Chaldea (Tall al Mugayar, Iraq) with son Abram, his wife Sarah and Lot, a son of his brother Haran for Canaan (Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Jordan and Southern portions of Syria and Lebanon).

A History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Vol.

From Abraham parting from Ur of Chaldea to the exodus from Egypt; from the moment they lost political control of their own land and were dispersed, first in the Middle East and the growing Roman Empire and then throughout the known world, most of Jewish history takes place in the Diaspora.

The work of French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero became more widely available to English readers in the 1903-1906 twelve-volume translation, History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, where the historian describes, with some horror, the early Egyptians' matrilineal society, where there was "no family, in the sense in which we understand the word, except as it centered around the mother...the woman, to all appearances, played the principal part.

While the Cotton manuscript (British Library Cotton Titus C.XVI) dates from approximately the same time and includes these same four complete systems, Egerton also includes two incomplete alphabets: the alphabet of "Caldee" (that is, Chaldea) is included only through the symbols for letters, while Persian appears only in its letter names.

Before Yhwh called, Abram was in transit (at Haran) with his father, Terah from Ur of Chaldea, to Canaan (Gen.

He begins by rejecting the consensus view that Abraham was born in Ur Kasdim by reasoning that it is illogical that Abraham was born there in the land of the "Chaldeans" because he descended from Semites, yet Chaldea and the entire region of Sumer are Hamitic lands.

As such, 19th and early 20th century colonial ideas about Pacific island 'natives' were strongly focused on origins, using, on the one hand, biblical ideas of being descended from the biblical Hebrews, and, on the other hand, newly emerging scientific ideas about peoples entering the Pacific ready-made from places as far afield as Ancient Chaldea, Greece, Egypt, Israel, or India (Howe 2003).

Amurru means the Hittite country (Syria) and the nomad land or, according to another tradition, Chaldea. (47) How, then, should we explain this problem in Assur A?

The Voodoo Doll Spellbook: A Compendium of Recent and Contemporary Spells and Rituals is a serious-minded guide based on New Orleans voodoo and hoodoo traditions, as well as incorporating spellwork from ancient Egypt, Chaldea, Greece, Africa, Europe, and author Denise Alvaradd's own grimoires.