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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.
This series of events has been unanimously associated with a story found in 2 Chronicles 36:10 [17]:34 [8]:190 which deals with a siege of Jerusalem by Babylonians (a few months after the death of Jehoiakim) [24], the ensuing deportation of Jehoiachin and the installment of Zedekiah sometime around Nisan 1 [25];
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 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 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 ...
One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, [3] which first appears in Akkadian during the Old Babylonian period as a circa 1,000 line epic known by its incipit, šūtur eli šarrī, ‘‘Surpassing all other kings,’’ which incorporated some of the stories from the five earlier Sumerian Gilgamesh tales. A plethora of mid to ...
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.
Babylonian King Lists: 271, 272, 566–567: The Babylonian King List B, The Babylonian King List A, A Seleucid King List: 1.135: Assyrian King Lists: 564–566: The Assyrian King List: Babylonian Chronicles: 1.137: Babylonian Chronicle: 301–307: The Neo-Babylonian Empire and its Successors: 1.143: An Assurbanipal Hymn for Shamash: 386–387