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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Sheshach (Babylon)
Babylon in code. Swap each Hebrew letter for the one counted from the other end of the alphabet, a cipher called atbash, and Babylon comes out as Sheshach. Jeremiah uses it in his oracles.
Babylon in code. Swap each Hebrew letter for the one counted from the other end of the alphabet, a cipher called atbash, and Babylon comes out as Sheshach. Jeremiah uses it in his oracles.
Sheshach was not a person but a coded name for Babylon, formed by substituting each Hebrew letter with its counterpart counted from the opposite end of the alphabet, a cipher called atbash. Jeremiah used the name in oracles against Babylon, and its parallel with "Babylon" in the surrounding verses confirms the identification (Jeremiah 25:26; 51:41).
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- Jeremiah 25:26
- Jeremiah 51:41
