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The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history. [2] They represent one of the first steps in the development of ancient historiography. The Babylonian Chronicles are written in Babylonian cuneiform and date from the reign of Nabonassar until the Parthian Period.
The Babyloniaca is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BCE. Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century CE Christian author and bishop Eusebius, [1] and was known to a limited extent in learned circles as late as late antiquity. [2]
The Greek text of the Chronicon is also now lost to us but there is an ancient Armenian translation (500–800 AD) of it, [18] and portions are quoted in Georgius Syncellus's Ecloga Chronographica (c. 800–810 AD). Nothing of Berossus survives in Jerome's Latin translation of Eusebius.
The ABC5 is a continuation of Babylonian Chronicle ABC4 (The Late Years of Nabopolassar), where Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned as the Crown Prince. [2] Since the ABC 5 only provides a record through Nebuchadnezzar's eleventh year, [ 3 ] the subsequent destruction and exile recorded in the Hebrew Bible to have taken place ten years later are not ...
The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets.It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, covers the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and ends with the start of the reign of Cyrus's son Cambyses II, spanning a period ...
The Chronicle of Early Kings, named ABC 20 in Grayson’s Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles [2] and CM 40 in Glassner’s Chroniques mésopotamiennes [3] is a Babylonian chronicle preserved on two tablets: tablet A [i 1] is well preserved whereas tablet B [i 2] is broken and the text is fragmentary.
The academic datings in question are confirmed by a variety of Persian, Babylonian and Greek sources, which include records of datable astronomical observations such as eclipses, [4] although there are disagreements among modern scholars, ranging from 1 to 2 years, over some of the dates in the conventional chronology.
The Babylonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of Jeconiah and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor Amel-Marduk (Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, [citation needed] which was the 37th year of Jeconiah's captivity according to 2 Kings 25:27. These Babylonian ...