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In the Book of Genesis 10:10, the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom is said to have been "Babel [Babylon], and Erech , and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Verse 11:2 states that Shinar enclosed the plain that became the site of the Tower of Babel after the Great Flood. In Genesis 14:1,9, King Amraphel rules Shinar.
"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar" Historical scholarship proposed candidate locations for the city of "Calneh", but it is now considered most likely, in a suggestion going back to W.F. Albright (1944), that the word did not in origin refer to a city but has been corrupted from ...
In Jewish and Christian tradition, Nimrod is considered the leader of those who built the Tower of Babel in the land of Shinar, [8] although the Bible never states this. Nimrod's kingdom included the cities of Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and perhaps Calneh, in Shinar (Gen 10:10). [9]
“Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. From the Book of Jubilees "And for Ashur came forth the second Portion, all the land of Ashur and Nineveh and Shinar and to the border of India, and it ascends and skirts the river." [1]
11 He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base." [27] The two women "with the wind in their wings" will take the basket and the woman within in it to Babylon (here rendered as Shinar), where a temple dedicated to wickedness is to be constructed. In ...
In the Jerusalem Talmud, the rabbis debated why Genesis 11:2 calls the land Shinar. Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish) said it is called Shinar because there the dead of the Flood were deposited (taking שׁנער , Shinar, as a contraction of שׁם ננערו , sham ninaru, "there they were deposited"). Another explanation was ...
Just over six months ago, Abu Shinar, who is from the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, was studying human rights law at Israa University in Gaza, determined to become a force of positive ...
According to the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Reu is said to have been born to Peleg and Lomna of Shinar at the time when the Tower of Babel was begun. 'Behold the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar.' - (10:18) [1]