Babylonism

English Etymology From en Babylon ism. Noun ~ The belief that the Semitic faith and culture of the ancient Israelites was an outgrowth of Babylonian faith and culture. en 1875 October The Unitarian Review Review of Current Literature 4 4 431 Prof. Schrader, now of Berlin, and one of the first living Orientalists, follows with a contribution to the discussion concerning the origin of Hebraism, entitled “ Semitism and Babylonism , ” in which , from the treasures which Assyrian discoveries have opened to us , he shows , in his own words, how "the vessel was prepared at Babylon, ino which later the contents of divine truth were to be poured." en 1877 Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development François Lenormant 376 I agree with him cordially in his view that Babylonism, as he calls it, differs radically from a pure and original Semitism as represented by the Arabs; further, that the influence of the most ancient Babylonish civilization which held sway over the Semitic tribes of the north, was the result of constant communication before the establishment of their nations in their definite regions, and which introduced among them all the ideas, institutions, religious, social and scientific traditions foreign to Arabia, which they had in common with Babylon. en 1906 Current Opinion - Volume 40 646 The emphasis upon “Babylonism” in the radical religious thought of the day, and the many efforts of German theologians to show that the religious ideas of the Babylonians are repeated in the teachings of the Scriptures, have been hitherto confined, in the main, to the Old Testament. en 1914 The Monist - Volume 24 Paul Carus 456 What originally Babylonian ideas have finally found a place in Christianity are much more insignificant than is assumed by the noted advocates of Babylonism with Jensen at their head. en 2007 The Origin of Biblical Traditions Albert T. Clay xxiii Since, however, there are now more than sufficient data available to show the complete baselessness of the contentions of Babylonism, and also because some scholars do not seem to be able to distinguish between efforts made to reconstruct the civilization and history of a lost empire and the riding of a hobby horse, it has seemed advisable to present at this time the material that has been assembled. A borrowing or influence from the Babylonian language (a form the Akkadian language) or culture. en 1854 Glossology, Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language and on the Language of Nature Charles V. Kraitsir 79 If somebody, with the view of remedying this Babylonism, were to write Chichero, Chelt, the Englishman would again make out of it Tshitshero (unknowingly that he italianizes) ; a Spaniard would do the same (thus concurring here with the Englishman); en 1898 The Expository Times Ed. König. 288 If one were inclined to find in this partial synonymy of ילר and וליר a 'Babylonism,' the assumption would be favoured by the circumstance that the ancient Hebrew, the Canaanite (Phoenician), the Zinjirli, and the Assyro-Babylonian have all anokhi-anakhuy, and that this agreement tallies with the Babylonian origin of Abram. en 1948 The Life of Christ Louis-Claude Fillion 547 It goes without saying that the critics are often in total disagreement on these different points. What one derives from Mithraism, another traces to Greek mythology or Babylonism; others simply say its origin is not Jewish. en 1961 Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics - Volume 5 James Hastings; John Alexander Selbie; Louis Herbert Gray 112 How far Babylonism affected Jewish belief before the Exile is difficult to decide. en pejorative Roman Catholicism; popery. en 1863 The Works of the Joseph Hall Joseph Hall 103 Mere Babylonism and sin in constitution; yea, the same that makes us no church For, what separation can there be in such admittance? en 1870 April The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine The Man with the Measuring Line A.J.S. 5 98 Babylon is now destroyed, but its principles are not dead, and its spirit still lingers in our Reformed Churches, in so far as they have not thoroughly purged themsolves from the dangerous laven. The essence of Babylonism is a great hatred of Jerusalem, a supplanting of the nation, which is God's nation, by robbing it of its God-given Scriptures, the gentilising, that is corrupting and mutilating of the Jewish Bible, and a putting up of the Church in opposition to the kingdom, which it attacks without ceasing. en 1984 The Last Days in America Bob Fraley 246 Babylonism is a satanic willfulness which seeks to solve its own problems and to build its own arrangement of things. en Ancient Near East Roman Catholicism