[Rain30210]

What does the word ‘Chaldean’ mean?
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Name : Rain30210, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States, 

[Andres]

A previous post said Chaldeans are Arabs. This is incorrect, though some may speak Arabic. The Chaldaeans were a Semitic people who first came into South Babylonia (now in modern Iraq) circa 1000 BC. With the death of Assurbanipal (626 BC), Nabopolassar seized the throne and control of the Babylonian Empire, which would become the Chaldean Empire. The empire flourished under Nabopolassar’s son Nebuchadnezzar II, but it declined rapidly thereafter and came to an end when Babylon fell to the Persians under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. They developed trhe study of astronomy and astrology during this period, so “Chaldaean” came to mean simply “astrologer,” as in the book of Daniel and among the Romans. Todays Chaldeans are a Christain people living chiefly in Iraq and are more of a cultrue than a ‘race,’ so many different kinds of people in the Middle East call themselves Chaldeans. I have a friend who calls himself an Iraqi-Chaldean, and he says their culture was the first to follow Christ. In the Old Testament, Chaldean is also used to mean Aramean. Aramaic, the language of the ancient Arameans, is the first language of today’s Chaldeans.

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[Jeff]

Dear Rain, Please visit http://www.chaldeansonline.net for more information.

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