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Chaldean

Contemporary references

• modern Chaldeans
• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is a modern Aramaic language. "Chaldean script" is sometimes used to refer to the Aramaic alphabet
• "Chaldean" is a name applied to Eastern Catholic Assyrians (Syriacs), see Chaldean Catholic Church,
• the Chaldean Syrian Church of the East

Babylonia

• Chaldea or "The Chaldees" was a part of Babylonia. According to Josephus, Chaldeans were known in Hebrew as "Kasidim" meaning "sorcerers".
• for the "Chaldean" or 11th dynasty of Babylon of the 6th century BC: see Kings of Babylon.
• Chaldean mythology, a cover-all term to refer to the mythology of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia
• "Chaldean language" may refer to the Urartian language also known as Vannic. It was the official language of Urartu spoken in northeastern Anatolia in the 9th6th centuries BCE. It is thought to be descended from the same language as Hurrian. Surviving Chaldean texts are written in the Syriac alphabet.
• the Chaldean Oracles played a role in the mystery religions in Hellenism (Greek mythology)

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