Chronographica, respectively) both record Berossus' use of "public records" and it is possible that Berossus catalogued his sources. This did not make...
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drew attention away from the study of the works of Berossus), the fragments of the works of Berossus were the only genuine surviving material known from...
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Apkallu (section Berossus' Babyloniaca)
Feast of Sacea] Berossus from Alexander Polyhistor recorded in Eusebius and Syncellus (translated from the Greek). In summary, Berossus' Babylonian history...
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the son and successor of Neriglissar. Though classical authors such as Berossus wrote that Labashi-Marduk was just a child when he became king, Babylonian...
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his offspring in Europe, and once attributed to the Chaldean historian Berossus, but now considered to have been a fabrication by the 15th-century Italian...
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discovered, substantial elements of the myth had survived via the writings of Berossus, primarily his Babyloniaca, a 3rd-century BCE Babylonian writer and priest...
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recorded as the hero of the Eridu Genesis and appears in the writings of Berossus as Xisuthros.[citation needed] Ziusudra is one of several mythic characters...
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the gardens by Berossus, a Babylonian priest of Marduk, whose writing c. 290 BC is the earliest known mention of the gardens. Berossus described the reign...
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Wives aboard Noah's Ark (section Pseudo-Berossus)
15th-century monk Annio da Viterbo, the Hellenistic Babylonian writer Berossus had stated that the sons' wives were Pandora, Noela, and Noegla, and that...
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Berossus' account begins with a primeval ocean. Unlike in the Enuma Elish, where sea monsters are generated for combat with other gods, in Berossus'...
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validity. In 1498 Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as Pseudo-Berossus, now considered a forgery, claiming that Babylonian records had shown that...
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April. Berossus writes that Neriglissar ruled four years before dying and being succeeded by his son Laborosoardokhos (Labashi-Marduk). Berossus erroneously...
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Tanais by Lysippe (Amazon) Berosus, father of the Sibyl Sabbe by Erymanthe Berossus (3rd century BC), Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer and astronomer Berosus...
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Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-7241-0. Gmirkin, Russell E. (2006). Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567134394. Hendel...
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regnal names. We have some data sources from the classical period: Berossus Berossus, a Babylonian astronomer and historian born during the time of Alexander...
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Herodotus, and second-hand descriptions, citing the work of Ctesias and Berossus—present an incomplete and sometimes contradictory picture of the ancient...
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Antiquity). In 1498, Annius of Viterbo claimed to have translated records of Berossus, an ancient Babylonian priest and scholar; which are today usually considered...
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Genesis was composed in the late 270s BC, drawing on Greek sources like Berossus’ Babyloniaca and reflecting the political context of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic...
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Prophecy corroborates Berossus's account, by stating that Nabonidus was removed from his throne and settled "in another land". If Berossus is believed, Nabonidus...
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Mesopotamia in Classical literature (section Berossus)
confused for times predating the 7th century BCE. Had the native history of Berossus survived, this may not have been the case; all that is known of the Chaldaean...
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traditions: Ziusudra ("Life of long days", rendered Xisuthros, Ξίσουθρος in Berossus) in the earliest, Sumerian versions, later Shuruppak (after his city),...
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Togarmah. In 1498, Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as Pseudo-Berossus, now considered a forgery, claiming that Babylonian records had shown a...
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Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. Gmirkin, Russell E. (2006). Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-567-13439-4. Hanauer...
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PMC 9793425. PMID 36455558. S2CID 248865376. Gmirkin, Russell (2006). Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of...
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Nebuchadnezzar's wife. According to Berossus, her name was Amytis, daughter of Astyages, king of the Medes. Berossus writes that '[Nabopolassar] sent troops...
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known from citations from Berossus' Babyloniaca preserved in the works of authors such as Eusebius and Syncellus. Berossus' account of early kings depended...
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1498, a monk named Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as "Pseudo-Berossus", now considered a forgery, claiming that Babylonian records had shown...
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an epidemic of some kind that saved Jerusalem. The Babylonian historian Berossus also wrote that it was a plague that defeated the Assyrian army in the...
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Parthia and Hyrcania in the south. According to the Babylonian historian Berossus, the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus, died fighting against...
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and accords with the contextual information from Pseudo-Hecataeus and Berossus as well as agreeing with Al-Tabari and Masudi's placement of events. Ahasuerus...
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