1835 I. Taylor iii. 96 The antebabylonish Jews.
1857 L. Schmitz in W. Smith II. 18/2 Josephus gives a minute description [of Jerusalem]..which, as far as it relates to the Old city, will serve for the elucidation of the ante-Babylonish capital.
1875 W. Smith & S. Cheetham I. 426/2 Certain ‘high places’ in the ante-Babylonish history of the Jews, known in later times as προσευχαί.