Chaldean

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• From there, Chaldean astrology made its way to Greece, aligning itself with philosophy and mathematics along with other sciences of the "holistic" ancient world.

  Blog text (18)

• I first encountered this story in "The Chaldean Account of Genesis" and I might be wrong (going from memory), but I believe there are accounts of the name Lilith in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  Blog text (9)

• In his interpretation of the Chaldean Oracles, Michael Psellos specified that when the name of a god has been cited in one language, the name should not be translated because the original form exercised supernatural force.

  Academic text (2008)

• The 19th-century Egyptologist, Gaston Camille Charles Maspero, in speaking of Chaldean formulas and figures for land-surveying work, says:

  Blog text (31)

• The Assyrian and Chaldean deputy said that by the approval of the bill, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is following in the path of Prophet Mohammad and Imam Ali.

  Academic text (2007)

• Ussher proceeded by correlating the death of the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II with the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin (as stated in 2 Kings 25:27).

  Academic text (1991)

• He bicycled back into the city center and bought four different-colored sticks of chalk from a stationer in Shurja Street, just across from St. Joseph's Catholic Church, where the Chaldean Christians meet to worship.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The Leadership Council (the group that would exercise executive powers over a gradually increasing number of ministries) was to be comprised of the Organizing Committee plus one Iraqi leader from each province (18 total, either internal or external), and to ensure full ethnic representation, one individual each of Assyrian, Chaldean, Yezidi, and Turkoman origin.

  Academic text (2013)

• The archaeological site revealed many artifacts from a Chaldean civilization that thrived thousands of years ago.

• Scholars study Chaldean texts to understand the cultural practices of one of the earliest civilizations in history.

Synonyms

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Chaldee

vsChaldean

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Relating to the ancient people, language, or culture of Chaldea

has identical meaning but is a different word form

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