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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 37th year of the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar has been unambiguously dated to 568/567 BC based on an ancient astronomical diary (VAT 4956) [1] [2]. That, in turn, allowed precise dating of events described in other Babylonian documents of particular importance for Jewish history:
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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 Eclectic Chronicle, referred to in earlier literature as the New Babylonian Chronicle, is an ancient Mesopotamian account of the highlights of Babylonian history during the post-Kassite era prior to the 689 BC fall of the city of Babylon. It is an important source of historiography from the period of the early iron-age dark-age with few ...
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 Chronicle is understood to confirm the date of the First Siege of Jerusalem. [4] Prior to publication of the Babylonian Chronicles by Donald Wiseman in 1956, [ 10 ] Thiele had determined from the biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem occurred in the spring of 597 BC, [ 11 ] while other scholars, including ...
The Dynastic Chronicle, "Chronicle 18" in Grayson's Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles [2] or the "Babylonian Royal Chronicle" in Glassner’s Mesopotamian Chronicles, [3] is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian text extant in at least four known copies.