Shinar

People begin to settle in Shinar, which is something of a prototypical silicon valley, with a charismatic entrepreneur at the helm and a booming technology (brick making) driving a whole new culture (based on progress and unhindered communication; this story occurs at a time when all people speak the same language.)

The Speculist: God and the Singularity 2006

People begin to settle in Shinar, which is something of a prototypical silicon valley, with a charismatic entrepreneur at the helm and a booming technology (brick making) driving a whole new culture (based on progress and unhindered communication; this story occurs at a time when all people speak the same language.)

The Speculist: January 2006 Archives 2006

The contemporaneous king of Babylon in the north, in the country termed Shinar in Scripture, was

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

"Shinar," though including, perhaps, more than the land of Babylon (cf. on 10: 10), is yet that extremely fertile land that the ancients praised so highly, attributing to it two hundred fold fertility and more.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

"Shinar" is Babylon, perhaps allied to Shumir (Sumerians).

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

Indeed "Shinar" is only the way in which the Hebrews pronounced and spelt the ancient name of Lower

Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879

SHUMIR is Southern or Lower Chaldea, the country towards and around the Persian Gulf, -- that very land of Shinar which is mentioned in Genesis xi.

Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879

-- The oldest inhabitants of this region of whom we have any knowledge were the _Sumerians, _ whose territory included both _Sumer_ ( "Shinar"), or southern Babylonia, and

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

"In the Scripture it is called Shinar, Babel, and 'the Land of the

Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing Oliver Optic 1859

From this place it is a journey of twenty-one days by way of the deserts to the land of Saba, which is called the land El-Yemen, lying at the side of the land of Shinar which is towards the North. [

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela