Urfa - Edessa is a city in south eastern Turkey identified as the original Ur of the Khaldis mentioned in Genesis where Abram was born. To the Arabs it was known as Ar-Ruha and to the Greeks it was Orra. See also: Edessa.
Khaldis - Khaldis The Khaldis was a conglomeration of at least 79 different gods known to the Urartuans and Hurrians. The inscription of Argistis near Lake Van states: "This is the spoil of the cities which I obtained for the people of the Khaldis its one year... To Khaldis, the giver, to the Khaldises. the supreme givers, she children of Khaldis the mighty....." From this we can derive that The Pantheon -the khaldis- may also refer to a sphere of religion or cultural influence of a particular way of life the people of the area followed. This Pantheon was the traditional religion in the area Abram hailed from Ur-Of-The-Khaldis and it is likely it may have had some influence on his theology. Moreover it seems from the inscription.
Abraham - found in the Genesis, beginning in Chapter 11, at the close of a genealogy of the sons of Shem (which includes among its members Eber, the eponym of the Hebrews). His father Terah is said to have come from Ur of the Khaldis in Mesopotamia commonly confused with Babel of the much later Chaldeans. He migrated to Haran, apparently the classical Carrhae, on a branch of the Habor. Thence, after a short stay, Abram with his wife Sarai, and Lot the son of Abram's brother Haran, and all their followers, departed for Canaan. According to the account, Yahweh called Abram to go to "the land I will show you", and promised to bless Abram and make him (though hitherto childless) a great nation. Based on this, Abram journeyed down to Shechem,.
History of ancient Israel and Judah - meeting place for religious and cultural influences from Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor. It was also the natural battleground for the great powers of the region and subject to domination by adjacent empires, beginning with Egypt in the late 3rd millennium BC. The patriarchal period The history traditionally begins with Abraham being promised by God that he would become the father of a great nation. If the events described in the Bible actually took place, they would appear to take place circa 1800 BC. Somewhere near this time, Terah and his son Abram (later named Abraham) move from the Sumerian city of Ur to the city of Haran. Abraham declares his belief in the One God, which initiates the beginning of Judaism. Abraham marries Sarai (later named Sarah). Abraham and.
First Babylonian Dynasty - that the other list is better, at least for one or two reigns out of the first six. (The reigns in List B are longer, in general. Unfortunately, it is not available for the editor. Please add the info here if you have it.) First Babylonian Dynasty: 1959-1945 Su-abu or Suum-abum 1945-1909 Sumula-ilum 1909-1895 Sabium or Sabum 1895-1877 Apil-Sin 1877-1857 Sin-muballit 1857-1814 Hammurabi 1814-1776 Samsu-ilana 1776-1748 Abi-eshuh or Abieshu 1748-1711 Ammi-ditana 1711-1690 Ammi-zaduga or Ammisaduqa 1690-1659 Samsu-ditana Hammurabi's other name was Hammurapi-ilu, meaning Hammurapi the god or perhaps Hammurapi is god. He could have been Amraphel king of Shinar or Sinear in the Jewish records and the Bible, a contemporary of Abraham. (Abraham lived from 1871 to 1784, according to modern interpretations of the Old Testament's figures that have been usually.
Sin (mythology) - known as Nanna, the "illuminer." The two chief seats of his worship were Ur in the south, and Harran considerably to the north, but the cult at an early period spread to other centres, and temples to the moon-god are found in all the large cities of Babylonia and Assyria. He is commonly designated as En-zu, i.e. "lord of wisdom," and this attribute clings to him throughout all periods. During the period (c. 2600-2400 BC) that Ur exercised a large measure of supremacy over the Euphrates valley, Sin was naturally regarded as the head of the pantheon. It is to this period that we must trace such designations of the god as "father of the gods," "chief of the gods," "creator of all things," and the like. We are justified in.
Proper names of Babylonia and Assyria - step was taken of utilizing the Sumerian words as means of writing the Babylonian words phonetically. In this case the signs representing Sumerian words were treated merely as syllables, and, without reference to their meaning, utilized for spelling Babylonian words. The Babylonian syllabary which thus arose, and which, as the culture passed on to the north-known as Assyria--became the Babylonian Assyrian syllabary, was enlarged and modified in the course of time, the Semitic equivalents for many of the signs being distorted or abbreviated to form the basis of new "phonetic" values that were thus of "Semitic" origin; but, on the whole, the "non-Semitic" character of the signs used as syllables in the phonetic method of writing Semitic words was preserved; and, furthermore, down to the latest days of the Babylonian and.
Nahmanides - for authority Nahmanides extended even to the Geonim and their immediate disciples, up to Alfasi. "We bow," he says, "before them, and even when the reason for their words is not quite evident to us, we submit to them" ("Aseifat Zekkenim" to Kethubot). Nahmanides' adherence to the words of the earlier authorities, which becomes more accentuated in his later productions, is due as much to his natural piety and the influence of the northern French school upon his early training as to his conviction that at that time compromises were inopportune. Indeed, the rapid progress made by Greco-Arabic philosophy among the Jews of Spain and Provence after the appearance of Maimonides' "Moreh Nevukhim", (Guide for the Perplexed) gave rise to a tendency to allegorize Biblical narratives and to refuse credit to.
Urtext edition - added or changed material. Other kinds of editions distinct from urtext are facsimile and interpretive editions, discussed below. The word "urtext" is of German origin; "ur-" (pronounced "oor") means "original". Occasionally the word "urtext" is capitalized, following German spelling practice. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Preparing urtext editions 2 Types of editions 3 The value of urtext editions 4 Book 5 Links Preparing urtext editions The sources for an urtext edition include the autograph (that is, the manuscript produced in the composer's hand), hand copies made by the composer's students and assistants, the first published edition, and other early editions. Since first editions often include misprints, a particularly valuable source for urtext editions is a copy of the first edition that was hand corrected by the composer. Where the sources are.
Hez-ur - Hez-ur In Egyptian mythology, Hez-ur was a baboon-god..
History of sculpture - a variety of precious stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. Clay was used for pottery and terra cotta sculpture. Stone was generally rare and had to be imported from other locations. Sculptures from the Sumerian and Akkadian period generally had large, staring eyes, and long beards on the men. Votive stone sculptures of this type from 2700 BC were discovered at Tell Asmar. Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at Ur (2650 BC). Among them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black bearded golden bull's head. Sculpure in Babylonian times The history of the Babylonian period is considered to begin with the reign of Hammurabi, in 1750 BC. Hammurabi was famous for his code of law. A bearded head,.
Economy of Uruguay - industry NA%, services NA% Unemployment rate: 12% (1999) Budget: revenues: $4.4 billion expenditures: $4.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $500 million (1998 est.) Industries: food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, textiles, chemicals, beverages Industrial production growth rate: -4% (1999 est.) Electricity - production: 9.474 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 3.91% hydro: 95.62% nuclear: 0% other: 0.47% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 6.526 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 2.363 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 78 million kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: wheat, rice, barley, maize, sorghum; livestock; fish Exports: $2.1 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.) Exports - commodities: meat, rice, leather products, vehicles, dairy products, wool, electricity Exports - partners: Mercosur partners 45%, EU 20%, US 7% (1999 est.) Imports: $3.4 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.).
Ur - Ur Ur (or Urim) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia, originally located near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. The remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates at 30° 95' N., 46° 5' E, and named Tell el-Mukayyar [1], near the city of Nasiriyah. The site is marked by the ruins of the ziggurat, which is still largely intact, and by the settlement mound. The ziggurat is a temple of Nanna and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Archaeology 3 Notes 4 Sources 5.
Urdu language - the more modern Naskh. Nastaleeq is notoriously difficult to typeset so Urdu newspapers are made from hand-written masters. There are efforts underway to develop decent Urdu support on computers. (Hindi is written in the Devanagari alphabet.) Transliterations of Urdu into english usually omit many subtle announciations which have no equivalent in english, such as a sharp exhale at the end of certain words. Language Codes ISO 639-1: ur ISO 639-2: urd SIL: URD.
Ur-Hamlet - Ur-Hamlet Ur-Hamlet was the name given by nineteenth century German scholars to a pre-Shakespearean Hamlet written before 1589. In that year Thomas Nashe implies the existence of such a play in his introduction to Robert Greene's Menaphon: English Seneca read by Candle-light yeelds many good sentences, as Blood is a begger, and so forth; and if you intreate him faire in a frostie morning, hee will affoord you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of Tragicall speeches. There is a record of a performance of Hamlet in 1594 in Philip Henslowe's diary and in 1596 Thomas Lodge wrote of "the ghost which cried so miserably at the theatre, like an oyster-wife, Hamlet, revenge!". Because Nashe apparently makes allusions to Thomas Kyd in the same passage, and.
Eurovision Song Contest 1967 - 4 17 Monaco Minouche Barelli Boum Badaboum 5 10 Netherlands Therese Steinmetz Ringe-dinge-ding (Ringe-dinge-ding) 14 2 Norway Kirsti Sparboe Dukkemann (Puppet on a String) 14 2 Portugal Eduardo Nascimento O Vento Mudou (The Wind has Changed) 12 3 Spain Raphael Hablemos Del Amor 6 9 Sweden Öesten Warnerbring Som En Dröm (Like a Dream) 8 7 Switzerland Géraldine Quel Cœur Vas-tu Briser? (Whose Heart will you Break?) 17 0 United Kingdom Sandie Shaw Puppet on a String 1 47 Yugoslavia Lado Leskovar Vse rože sveta (All the Flowers of the World) 8 7 Venue: Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg - Vienna, Austria The table is ordered by the countries names. Voting Structure Each Country had 10 Jury Members who each decided the best song and each awarded 1 point. Score.
20th century BC - 1991 BC -- Egypt: End of Eleventh Dynasty, start of Twelfth Dynasty 1932 BC -- Amorite conquest of Ur 1913 - 1903 BC -- Egyptian-Nubian war 1900 BC -- Achaean invasions of Greece around 1900 BC -- Fall of last Sumerian dynasty Significant persons: Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions: 1950 BC -- The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cm.
21st century BC - 2080 BC -- Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt 2112 - 2095 BC -- Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 2049 BC - Oak trees for Seahenge felled. 2040 BC -- End of Tenth Dynasty of Egypt 2034 - 2004 BC -- Ur-Amorite wars 2004 BC -- Elamite destruction of Ur 2000 BC -- The town of Mantua was presumedly founded Significant persons: According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th avatar of Vishnu Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions: 2000 BC -- First written accounts of Schizophrenia. 2037 BC -- Emperor Shen Nong makes first (perhaps mythical) tea drink by boiling fresh leaves.
22nd century BC - -- Egypt: Start of Tenth Dynasty 2130 - 2080 BC -- Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt 2116 - 2110 BC -- Uruk-Gutian war 2112 - 2095 BC -- Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu Significant persons: Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:.
31st century BC - Menes unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, and a new capital is erected at Memphis. Significant persons: Ur-nina first king of Lagash in Mesopotamia Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions: Chinese ideograms Drainage and sewage system in India Dams, canals, stone sculptures using inclined plane and lever in Sumeria Pyramids in Ancient Egypt Copper was in use, both as tools and weapons. Crude writing existed in Egypt, and cuneiform writing was invented in Mesopotamia..
