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    Babylonian Chronicles The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history. They represent...
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    The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah...
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    settled in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Noph, and Pathros. (Jeremiah 44:1). The Babylonian Chronicles give 2 Adar (16 March), 597 BC, as the date that Nebuchadnezzar...
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    Babylonia (redirect from Babylonians)
    of the new seat of government, but the recent publication of the Babylonian Chronicles has shown that urban life was still very much the same well into...
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    exile of the Jews to Babylon; this event was also recorded in the Babylonian Chronicles. The exilic period saw the development of the Israelite religion...
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    Nebuchadnezzar II (category Babylonian captivity)
    Nebuchadnezzar II (/ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzər/ NEB-yuu-kəd-NEZ-ər; Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew:...
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    Jeconiah/Josiah (Matt 1:11) lineage to Jesus is not cursed. The Babylonian Chronicles establish that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem for the first time...
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    to Babylon. The defeat was also recorded in the Babylonian Chronicles. In 539 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, with...
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    modern lists of Babylonian kings. Babylon was destroyed at this time and many contemporary Babylonian documents, such as chronicles, refer to Sennacherb's...
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    The Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle, also known as Jerusalem Chronicle, is one of the series of Babylonian Chronicles, and contains a description of the first...
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    suggested that the diaries were used as sources for the Babylonian Chronicles. The Babylonians were the first to recognise that astronomical phenomena...
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  • Antigonus. This is described in one of the contemporary Babylonian Chronicles, the Chronicle of the Diadochi Archived 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • Kings, the Dynastic Chronicle, Chronicle P and the Assyrian Synchronistic History. A series of fifteen neo to late Babylonian Chronicles have been recovered...
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    The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets...
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  • Alexander Chronicle mentions the battle of Gaugamela and the incident of Bessus, who was pursued by Aliksandar. Alexander and Arabia Chronicle refers to...
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    ISSN 0071-108X. JSTOR 23619437. 2 Chronicles 13:17 2 Chronicles 13:20 2 Chronicles 16:1 2 Chronicles 14:9–15 2 Chronicles 16:2–6 2 Chronicles 16:1–7 2 Kings 20:35–37...
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    Fall of Babylon (category Jewish Babylonian history)
    inconsistencies between the various source documents. Both the Babylonian Chronicles and the Cyrus Cylinder describe Babylon being taken "without battle"...
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    around 590 BCE, based on references in the Hebrew Bible and in Neo-Babylonian chronicles. S. Kroll, however, observed that the relevant texts might refer...
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    The introduction of the new era is mentioned in one of the Babylonian Chronicles, The Chronicle of the Diadochi. Two different variations of the Seleucid...
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    accurately. The Babylonian Chronicles date the battle at Harran between the Assyrians and their Egyptian allies against the Babylonians from Tammuz (July–August)...
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    available chronicles stem from later Babylonian and Assyrian sources. The Dynastic Chronicle, after a Sumerian King List type beginning, involves Babylonian kings...
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    exiled to Babylon. According to the Babylonian Chronicles, Jerusalem fell on 2 Adar (16 March) 597 BC. The Chronicles state: The seventh year (of Nebuchadnezzar...
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    Belshazzar (category Neo-Babylonian kings)
    Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform:   Bēl-šar-uṣur, meaning "Bel, protect the king"; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר‎ Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus...
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    Jack Finegan's encyclopedic Handbook of Biblical Chronology. The Babylonian Chronicles give 2 Adar (16 March), 597 BC, as the date that Nebuchadnezzar...
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    Akkad. While various copies of the Sumerian king list and later Babylonian chronicles credit Sargon with a reign length ranging from 34 to 56 years, dated...
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    (2006) No 24 WA21946, The Babylonian Chronicles, The British Museum Horn, Siegfried H. (1967). "The Babylonian Chronicle and the Ancient Calendar of...
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    Nabopolassar (category Articles containing Neo-Babylonian Akkadian-language text)
    religious temples, was so excessive that it shocked the Babylonians; contemporary Babylonian chronicles, otherwise hostile to the Assyrians, lament the sackings...
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  • chronology. Both the Babylonian Chronicles and the Bible indicate that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem. The Babylonian Chronicles (as published by Donald...
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    Cyrus the Great (category Babylonian captivity)
    Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 28 March 2011. The Nabonidus Chronicle of the Babylonian Chronicles The Verse account of Nabonidus The Prayer of Nabonidus (one...
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  • maintenance of chronologically precise historical records. Both the Babylonian Chronicle and the Ptolemaic Canon begin with his accession to the throne. He...
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