Example sentences for: babylonian

How can you use “babylonian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Two thousand years ago, the sages of the Babylonian Talmud addressed this question in a mysterious way--by offering a series of numerical examples with no hint of the general underlying principle.

  • Mizrahi (or “eastern”) Jews are from West Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa, including black-eyed, high-cheekboned Yemenite Jews; Jews from the mountains of Kurdistan and the dusty plateaus of Bukhara; and Iraqi Jews, whose community existed from the days of the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century b.c. until modern times.

  • The Babylonian Talmud recommends reciting baz bazia, mas masia, kas kasia, scharlai and amarlai.

  • Shekel (Israel) was a Babylonian weight which became the coin of the Hebrews.

  • From antiquity many such chameleonic switchovers are preserved on papyrus, parchment, stone, and bone and in clay, Greek letters serving to write Demotic Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Indian, and Latin.


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