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BEROSSUS , a See also:priest of See also:Bel at See also:Babylon, who translated into
See also:Greek the See also:standard Babylonian See also:work on See also:astrology and See also:astronomy, and compiled (in three books) the See also:history of his See also:country from native documents, which he published in Greek in the reign of See also:Antiochus II. (25o B.C.). His See also:works have perished, but extracts from the history have been preserved by See also:Josephus and See also:Eusebius, the latter of whom probably derived them not directly from Berossus, but through the See also:medium of See also:Alexander Polyhistor and See also:Apollodorus. The extracts containing the Babylonian cosmology, the See also:list of the antediluvian See also:kings of Babylonia, and the Chaldaean See also:story of the See also:Deluge, have been shown by the decipherment of the See also:cuneiform texts to have faithfully reproduced the native legends; we may, therefore, conclude that the See also:rest of the History was equally trustworthy. On the other See also:hand, a list of See also:post-diluvian dynasties, which is quoted by Eusebius and Georgius See also:Syncellus as having been given by Berossus, cannot, in its See also:present See also:form, be reconciled with the monumental facts, though a substratum of See also:historical truth
is discoverable in it. As it stands, it is as follows:
i. 86 Chaldaean kings 34,080 or 33,091 years
2. 8 Median „ 224
3. I I other kings „ no number.
4. 49 Chaldaean „ 458
5. 9 Arabian ,, 245
6. 45 See also:Assyrian , 526 „
After these, according to Eusebius, came the reign of Pul. By means of an ingenious See also:chronological See also:combination, the several items of which, however, are very questionable, J. A. See also:Brandis 1
assigned 258 years to the 3rd See also:dynasty; other summations have been proposed with equally little assurance of certainty. If Eusebius can be trusted, the 6th dynasty ended in 729 B.c., the See also:year in which Pul or Tiglath-pileser III. was crowned See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Babylonia. But all attempts to harmonize the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of dynasties thus ascribed to Berossus with the list given us in the so-called dynastic Tablets discovered by Dr Pinches have been failures. The See also:numbers, whether of kings or of years, cannot have been handed down to us correctly by the Greek writers. All that seems certain is that Berossus arranged his history so that it should fill the astronomical See also:period of 36,000 years, beginning with the first See also:man and ending with the See also:con-quest of Babylon by Alexander the See also:Great.
See J. P. See also:Cory, See also:Ancient Fragments (1826, ed. by E. R. Hodges, 1876) ; Fr. See also:Lenormant, Essai de commentaire See also:des fragments cosmogoniques de Berose (1872) ; A. von See also:Gutschmid in the Rheinisches Museum (1853) ; See also:George See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith in T.S.B.A. iii., 1874, pp. 361-379; Th. G. Pinches in P.S.B.A., 1880-1881. (A. H.
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