All 43 Uses of
Babylon
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- "In the ancient conflict of the Jews and the Babylonians," he said—but there he was cut off.†
Chpt 2 *
- It was another of those mysteries of luck, as if all he'd read into the Babylonian rituals was true.†
Chpt 5
- SUNLIGHT (in the voice of a lecturer): You're familiar, I suppose, with the conflict of the Old Testament Jews and the Babylonians?†
Chpt 7
- But the Babylonians were an interesting people.†
Chpt 7
- But the Babylonians saw the matter quite differently, if I'm not mistaken.†
Chpt 7
- All the evidence we have—fragments, representations, clay replicas, even literary evidence—indicates that the Babylonian gods were conceived as actually residing in their images, effective only within the substance of their images.†
Chpt 7
- Whichever came first, the chickens or the egg, the Assyrians, Sumerians, and Babylonians loved substance in every form—they explored their flesh, tabulated the movements of the planets, studied the chemical components of matter, followed the seasons and made the finest calendars of the ancient world.†
Chpt 7
- Not Babylon!†
Chpt 7Babylon = ancient city
- And so, for thousands of years, the Babylonians survived.†
Chpt 7
- But I say, with the Babylonian, Faddle!†
Chpt 7
- So the Babylonians understood that a man must be physically and spiritually prosperous, and that the two had no necessary relationship.†
Chpt 7
- I say this: The Babylonian gods were, to ordinary perception, brute objects.†
Chpt 7
- In politics the Babylonian would assert a close but mystical connection between rulers and the mumbling gods.†
Chpt 7
- One of the most remarkable differences between the Babylonian and the Hebrew mind is that the Babylonian places no value whatever on individual human life.†
Chpt 7
- One of the most remarkable differences between the Babylonian and the Hebrew mind is that the Babylonian places no value whatever on individual human life.†
Chpt 7
- Every Babylonian lives his life as fully as he can, but to the culture he is, himself, nothing, a unit, merely part of a physical and spiritual system.†
Chpt 7
- So what would the Babylonian say about civil rights?†
Chpt 7
- The Babylonians had no science of medicine, at least nothing we'd recognize.†
Chpt 7
- But I'll tell you the word from Babylon.†
Chpt 7Babylon = ancient city
- SUNLIGHT: Babylon.†
Chpt 7
- I meant to say Babylon.†
Chpt 7
- I'm Babylonian, and you, you're one of the Jews.†
Chpt 7
- His mind wandered vaguely to the Babylonian puppets, and he frowned.†
Chpt 9
- On the wall there behind you, those are Babylonian figures for the twelve houses—astrological houses.†
Chpt 11
- They have words for it in Old Babylonian, Sumerian, the rest.†
Chpt 11
- The Babylonian would say it consists, first, in stubbornly maintaining one's freedom to act—in my case, evasion of the police, you see—and, second, in jumping when the Spirit says, "Jump!"†
Chpt 11
- There's an old Mesopotamian story, very famous—it's one of the Naram-Sin legends; survives not only in texts from Nineveh and Harran but in Old Babylonian too.†
Chpt 11
- According to the Babylonians, the greatest responsibility is to remain absolutely free.†
Chpt 11
- In the sexual sphere, from the ancient Babylonian point of view, one must never marry, or else one must maintain one's sexual independence in marriage.†
Chpt 11
- Perhaps the Babylonians were right.†
Chpt 11
- It does not lead home to Babylon, but it may make Babylon once again a live option.†
Chpt 11Babylon = ancient city
- It does not lead home to Babylon, but it may make Babylon once again a live option.†
Chpt 11
- So it was in ancient Babylon.†
Chpt 11
- So this: Babylon is fallen, but so is Israel.†
Chpt 11
- Here the Babylonian imperative that one remain free raised even more difficult problems, as you can see.†
Chpt 11
- Compare the Babylonian and the Israelite ways of assimilating the foreign.†
Chpt 11
- The Babylonian asked nothing but token acceptance of ruler and gods.†
Chpt 11
- Rome proved later the wisdom of the ancient Babylonian choice, though Babylon itself was overcome by the furious stubbornness of Jews not yet gone soft, true fire-eaters—if you'll forgive it.†
Chpt 11
- Rome proved later the wisdom of the ancient Babylonian choice, though Babylon itself was overcome by the furious stubbornness of Jews not yet gone soft, true fire-eaters—if you'll forgive it.†
Chpt 11Babylon = ancient city
- Babylon has fallen, and Troy has fallen, and no trace remains of the work of the greatest of sculptors.†
Chpt 11
- In Babylon—I leap to essentials—personal immortality is a mad goal.†
Chpt 15
- The pursuit of Youth is ridiculous, the Babylonian says.†
Chpt 15
- SUNLIGHT: The towers of Babylon!†
Chpt 21Babylon = ancient city
Definition:
important city of ancient Mesopotamia; on the Euphrates near modern-day Baghdad
Babylon no longer exists as a city. Some have identified it as largest city in the world from c. 1770 to 1670 BC, and again between c. 612 and 320 BC. It was perhaps the first city to reach a population above 200,000.
It is also famous for "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" -- one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
It is also famous for "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" -- one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.