Chaldeans
From Urantia Wiki, the encyclopedia of The Urantia Book
Also: Chaldean tribes.
The Chaldeans near Ur were among the most advanced of the eastern Semites. 96:2.1
The Chaldeans were among the first to abandon the sacrificing of humans for ordinary occasions, substituting therefor animals 89:6.2
The Chaldean tribes recognized the right of a wife to impose a premarital pledge upon her spouse not to take a second wife or concubine; both the Greeks and the Romans favored monogamous marriage. 83:6.3
they were star cultists and considered themselves to be the children of the sky father and the earth mother. The Chaldeans put the sun in the center of “the seven circles of the universe.” Also looked upon the stars as the cause of suffering 85:5.1-2 90:3.8
In the Urantia Book
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Human sacrifice 89:6.2 — Gn 22:1-10.
- Arrows of the Almighty 90:3.8 — Job 6:4; Ps 38:1-2.
Where it appears
Chaldeans is linked in 9 paragraphs of the text.