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The Chaldean states in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC. Chaldea[ 1] ( / kælˈdiːə /) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia. [ 2] Semitic -speaking, it was located in ...
The Chaldean Catholic Church is a uniate descendant of the ancient (Assyrian) Apostolic Church of the East (sometimes called Nestorian). Its members still preserve the use of Syriac (Eastern Aramaic) as their liturgical language. It was established in 1551, and its patriarch is resident in Baghdad.
Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Chaldean Rite, the East Syriac Rite of the Chaldean Catholics. Chaldean Oracles, texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from 3rd to 6th centuries AD; referred to by some of the Christian Church Fathers. Chaldean Syrian Church, title used ...
The Chaldean dynasty, also known as the Neo-Babylonian dynasty [2] [b] and enumerated as Dynasty X of Babylon, [2] [c] was the ruling dynasty of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling as kings of Babylon from the ascent of Nabopolassar in 626 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. The dynasty, as connected to Nabopolassar through descent, was deposed ...
The Chaldean Catholic Church[ a] is an Eastern Catholic particular church ( sui iuris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syriac Rite in the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language, it is part of Syriac Christianity.
The Chaldean Oraclesare a set of spiritual and philosophical texts widely used by Neoplatonistphilosophers from the 3rd to the 6th century CE. While the original texts have been lost, they have survived in the form of fragments consisting mainly of quotes and commentary by Neoplatonist writers. They were likely to have originally formed a ...
The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, [ 6] historically known as the Chaldean Empire, [ 7] was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century. [ 8] Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the ...
Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora. The Assyrian diaspora ( Syriac: ܓܠܘܬܐ, Galuta, "exile") refers to ethnic Assyrians living in communities outside their ancestral homeland. The Eastern Aramaic -speaking Assyrians claim descent from the ancient Assyrians and are one of the few ancient Semitic ethnicities in the Near East who resisted ...