Nabonidus Chronicles

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The Nabonidus Chronicles

The Nabonidus Chronicles describe the activities of Nabonid , the last king of the New Babylonian Empire , during the 17 years of his reign.

The chronicle is transmitted through the text in cuneiform on a clay tablet which the British Museum (Inv. No. ME 35382) acquired in London in 1879 in the art trade. The exact place of origin is unknown, but it is believed that it comes from Babylon .

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 .
  • Adolf Leo Oppenheim : The cuneiform texts . 1970 (translations of James B. Pritchard's Ancient near Eastern texts).
  • Reinhard-Gregor Kratz: Judaism in the age of the second temple . Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148835-0 (study edition from the series: Research on the Old Testament, No. 42).
  • Stephen Langdon, Rudolf Ten Pounds: The New Babylonian King Inscriptions . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1912 (German translation of the original English version by Stephen Langdon).
  • WG Lambert: A new Source for the reign of Nabonidus . In: Archive for Orient Research . No. 22 (1968/69) . AfO, S. 1-36 , JSTOR : 41637244 .
  • Paul-Alain Beaulieu: Legal and administrative texts from the reign of Nabonidus . Yale University Press, New Haven 2000, ISBN 0-300-05770-9 .
  • JJ Glassner: Babylonian Chronicles . Atlanta 2004 (edited by Benjamin R. Foster).
  • Albert-Kirk Grayson: Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Nabonidus Chronicles) . Augustin, New York 1975.
  • Raymond Philip Dougherty: Nabonidus and Belshazzar. A study of the closing events of the neo-Babylonian empire . AMS Press, New York 1980, ISBN 0-404-60285-1 (reprinted 1929).

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