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Dura
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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A valley mentioned only in Daniel (3:1). Here Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, to the dedication of which he summoned all the officers of his kingdom. The Septuagint (Codex Chisianus) reads ÏεÏιβÏÎ»Î¿Ï ("walls surrounding a city"), and this may be due to the Assyrian "duru" (= a wall). The place is therefore to be looked for in Assyria. Delitzsch("Wo Lag das Paradies?" p. 216) says that, according to Rawlinson, "Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia," 4:38,9-11b, there were three places in Babylon called "Dura" (see also Schrader, "C. I. O.T." 2:128). In one of these places east of Babylon, according to Oppert, ruins of an ancient statue have been found.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Dura'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/d/dura.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Dura'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/d/dura.html. 1901.
