Abraham – Babylon – Astrology (part 2)
Let’s continue with Abraham and his times…
BABYLON. What does: ‘Babylon’ stand for in the Bible? First of all, it is of course a city on the lower course of the Euphrates and the Tigris. Babylon is the Greek name for the Hebrew Babel (= ‘Gate of the gods’ or ‘Confusion’) in the land of Shinar that the Babylonians themselves liked to call Sumer (and Akkad) – the Sumerians living in the south and the Akkadians in the north. Babel (Babylon) lies in Babylonia, a part of Mesopotamia, the ‘fertile crescent’ with the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, and the little river Jordan that supplied the region of Israel with water. The city was already mentioned in the 23th century before Christ. (more…)
