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Shinar

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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


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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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