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Shinar (shī`när), in the Bible, the whole or a part of Babylonia. Shinar Old Testament the southern part of the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, often identified with Sumer; Babylonia 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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Our biblical author elsewhere hints that the earliest cities were in Mesopotamia or Shinar. For example, Shinar (1975) has found that physicist is a highly male stereotyped occupation, and we know that even elementary school children can distinguish occupational stereotypes and base their occupational preferences upon these stereotypes (Tremaine & Schau, 1979). From Shinar the arts were carried to distant parts of the earth notwithstanding the confusion of languages, which gave rise to Masons['] faculty and universal practice of conversing without speaking and of knowing each other by signs and tokens; they settled the dispersion in case any of them should meet in distant parts of the world who had been before in Shinar. |
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