Chaldean

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Chaldean (or Chaldian) may refer to:

• Chaldea ("the Chaldees"), Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylon
• Chaldean Dynasty, the 11th dynasty of Babylon (6th century BC)
• Chaldean mythology, generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon (Mesopotamian religions)
• Chaldean Oracles, played a role in Hellenistic mystery religions of the 1st centuries BC and AD.
• Historical Babylon, particularly in a Hellenistic context

Language

• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken in Iraq, and the Chaldean communities worldwide, most speakers being ethnic Assyrian Chaldean Catholics
• "Chaldean script", sometimes used to refer to the Syriac alphabet

Religion and Churches

• Chaldean Rite, an East Syrian Rite
  • Chaldean Christians, Assyrian people adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
• Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Eastern Syriac church in full communion with the Catholic Church
• Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India

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