Babylon refers to an important urban center located along the Euphrates River, near modern day Iraq, that rose to prominence during the second and first millennia BCE. Babylon served as a seat of kingship, administration, scholarship, and ritual life, shaping regional law, theology, and literature. Its traditions influenced surrounding cultures through imperial power, scribal activity, and the transmission of myths, legal codes, and historical narratives. Over time, Babylon also became a symbolic reference point in later texts. including the Hebrew bible, for political dominance and cultural authority.
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- Stewart, Alexander, Soteriology as Motivation in the Apocalypse of John
- Levin, Yigal, "How Did Rabshakeh Know the Language of Judah?" in Yona, Shamir (ed.) Marbeh HĚŁokmah: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
- Dunn, James D. G., and J. W. Rogerson, Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible
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