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Nimrod the founder of Babylon (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


 		Keywords
Babylon
Nimrod
Period
5th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Augustine, De Civitate Dei 16.4:
For Babylon means confusion. Whence we conclude that the giant Nimrod was its founder, as had been hinted a little before, where Scripture, in speaking of him, says that the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon.

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Augustine, De Civitate Dei 16.4

Bibliography

Livesey and Rouse 1981, 211Livesey, Steven J. and Richard H. Rouse. “Nimrod the Astronomer.” Traditio 37 (1981) 203-266.

Amar Annus


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