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Chaldean
may refer to:
a contemporary, ethnic
Assyrians
belonging to the
Chaldean Catholic Church
.
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
is a modern
Aramaic language
spoken today by Chaldean Catholics.
Chaldean script
is sometimes used to refer to the Eastern
Syriac alphabet
.
Biblical Aramaic
used to be referred to as 'Chaldean' or 'Chaldee'.
the historical
Babylonia
ns
, in particular in a
Hellenistic
context
The 11th dynasty of the
Kings of Babylon
(
6th century BC
) is conventionally known to historians as the
Chaldean Dynasty
.
Chaldean mythology
is a generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient
Sumer
,
Akkad
,
Assyria
and
Babylonia
.
Chaldea
,
"the Chaldees"
of the
KJV
Old Testament
, was a
Hellenistic
designation for a part of
Babylonia
.
The
Chaldean Oracles
played a role in
Hellenistic
mystery religions of the first centuries BC and AD.
Roman
and medieval authors used the name 'Chaldeans' in particular for
astrologers
and
mathematicians
of
Babylonia
.
the
Khaldi
, called
Chaldeans
by classical authors in spite of being unrelated to the Assyrians
Chaldean language
in old references may refer to the
Urartian language
Chaldean
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