Harran inscription (Nabonidus)
The Harran inscription ( H2 A as well as the corresponding duplicate H2 B ) comes from Nabonid , the last king of the New Babylonian Empire , and was written after 542 BC. Written in BC. The inscription was discovered in Harran in 1956 and has since been translated several times.
literature
- Hanspeter Schaudig : The inscriptions of Nabonids of Babylon and Cyrus the Great, together with the trend writings created in their environment . Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-927120-75-8 .
- Otto Kaiser : Texts from the environment of the Old Testament Volume 1 - Old Series - . Gütersloh 1984, ISBN 3-579-00063-2 .
- Reinhard-Gregor Kratz: Judaism in the Age of the Second Temple (study edition from the series of publications: Research on the Old Testament, No. 42) . Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148835-0 .
- Paul-Alain Beaulieu: The reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, 556-539 BC Yale University Press, New Haven 1989, ISBN 0-300-04314-7 .
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Notes and evidence
- ↑ Under Darius I followed in 522 BC. BC Nebuchadnezzar III. and 521 BC BC Nebuchadnezzar IV. As usurpers .