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ChaldeaAncient region, on the headwaters of the Euphrates River and adjacent to the Persian Gulf. It was originally the southern part of Babylonia; the name Chaldea also has been used (especially in the Bible) to describe all of Babylonia after it was occupied by the Chaldeans, who established a Chaldean (or neo-Babylonian) dynasty c. 625 BC. Under Nebuchadrezzar II, the empire expanded, subduing Judaea and capturing Jerusalem. It fell to the Persian Achaemenian dynasty in 539 BC. Chaldea, Chaldaea 1. an ancient region of Babylonia; the land lying between the Euphrates delta, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian desert 2. another name for Babylonia Chaldea ancient Mesopotamian land where study of astrology developed. [Ancient Hist.: NCE, 499] See : Astrology How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A projected two-day trip to Iraq to see the city of Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham, and to have a pastoral visit with Christians of the Chaldean Church (approximately 800,000 in number) has caused the greatest political concern. The whole of the Bible is established on the patriarchs, who also have connections with Egypt and Ur of the Chaldees, and go back farther, to a beginning in which human beings were meant to live in communion with God; but something happened that estranged us, and the estrangement explains the obviously broken world in which we live. |
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