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• And so, to conclude this lesson, we see that Aramaic is closely connected with the very dawn of civilisation itself, with the Fertile Crescent, going back all the way to Genesis chapter 10 in the establishment of the Babylonian kingdom.
• The Babylonian Empire always stands in opposition to God, in both the Old and New Testaments. It was a system of iniquity and idolatry which put mystery religion, or false religion, at its very heart.
• But, like the mighty Assyrian Empire before it, the powerful Babylonian Empire had Aramaic as its official language.