NABONIDUS

năbənīˈdəs, d. 538? b.c., last king of the Chaldaean dynasty of Babylonia. He was not of Nebuchadnezzar's family, and it is possible that he usurped the throne. He was absorbed in antiquarian and religious speculations, and he built temples while the state was left undefended. He was unpopular with both the priests and the people. When the Persian threat of Cyrus the Great grew strong, Nabonidus allied himself with Croesus of Lydia and Amasis II of Egypt, but to no avail. In 538? b.c. the kingdom fell to Cyrus with no resistance. Nabonidus' scholars preserved information valuable to modern archaeologists. Cuneiform records indicate that Belshazzar was Nabonidus' son and his coregent during the last years of Babylon.

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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vol. 3
Book by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford Lasor, Lawrence T. Geraty, Edgar W. Smith; W.B. Eerdmans, 1979
Subjects: Bible--Dictionaries
...of the moon cult. In his second year Nabonidus dedicated his only daughter to the lunar...562). In a dream Marduk commanded Nabonidus to restore the temple of Sin at Haran...sixth year (550), soon after which Nabonidus retired to Arabia (see V below). He...
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vol. 1
Book by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford Lasor, Edgar W. Smith; W.B. Eerdmans, 1979
Subjects: Bible--Dictionaries
...last of the Neo-Babylonian kings (NABONIDUS. 556-539 B.C.) and co- regent...41), all variants of the name Nabonidus. The con- temporary cuneiform inscriptions also make clear that Nabonidus (Bab. Nohri-nuicl. Nab6 is awe...
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On the Reliability of the Old Testament
Book by K. A. Kitchen; W.B. Eerdmans, 2003
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Evidences, Authority, Etc, Bible--O.T--History Of Biblical Events
...final prayer ( CoS II, 313-14). Nabonidus trusting the kingship to his eldest...in P.-A. Beaulieu, The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Bab- ylon, 556-539 B...University Press, 1989), 190-91. For Nabonidus and Belshazzar, cf. the pioneering...
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Images of Nebuchadnezzar: The Emergence of a Legend
Book by Ronald H. Sack; Susquehanna University Press, 2004
Subjects: Babylonia--History--Sources, Babylonia--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Nebuchadnezzar--Ii--King Of Babylonia--D. 562 B.C
...without altering it one finger-length, Nabonidus laid its base on the foundation of Naram...Lambert, A New Source for the Reign of Nabonidus, in Archiv fiir Orientforschung 22...has noted (ibid., 127-28), Thus Nabonidus was not the consum- mate iconoclast...
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Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Book by Craig A. Evans, Peter W. Flint; W.B. Eerdmans, 1997
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Dead Sea Scrolls, Dead Sea Scrolls--Relation To The New Testament, Eschatology, Jewish, Messiah--Biblical Teaching
...can be little doubt that the king is Nabonidus (Akkadian: Nabtt-naid), the last...in line 2. For a period of ten years Nabonidus was absent from Babylon and took up residence...2. Teima is the city in Arabia where Nabonidus sojourned during his ten-year absence...
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The Sun-god Tablet of Nabû-apla-iddina Revisited
Journal article by Christopher E. Woods; Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 56, 2004
...mention of the CM and claim that the Nabonidus cylinders were found in a chamber adjacent...CM deposit. Remarkably, the CM and Nabonidus cylinders were not found randomly strewn...casing."49 It is likely then, as the Nabonidus cylinders deal directly with the rebuilding...
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The Babylonian Background of the Motif of the Fiery Furnace in Daniel 3
Journal article by Paul-Alain Beaulieu; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 128, 2009
Subjects: Bible, Theology
...Nebuchadnezzar lurks a memory of the historical Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, who reigned from 556 to 539 b.c.e. The figure of Nabonidus emerges most clearly in Daniel 4 and...historical Bel-aar-usur, eldest son of Nabonidus and regent of the kingdom during his...
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Plotting Antiochus's Persecution
Journal article by Steven Weitzman; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 123, 2004
Subjects: Bible, Jews, Judaism, Religious persecution
...an inscription from the reign of King Nabonidus (556-539 B.C.E.), but in the...Babylonian king molded to this tradition was Nabonidus (556530 B.C.E.). In his own propaganda, Nabonidus is predictably cast in the role of caretaker...
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Media and Its Discontents
Journal article by Matthew Waters; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Medes--History, Medes--Portrayals, Media (Ancient country)--Analysis, Media (Ancient country)--Portrayals
...interpretation begin with the reign of Nabonidus (556-539). How do we reconcile the divergent views relayed by Nabonidus own inscriptions with the account...The umman-manda are described by Nabonidus as responsible for the destruction...
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Some Comments on the Ebabbara in the Neo-Babylonian Period
Journal article by John Macginnis; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, 2000
Subjects: Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian--History
...bullit is well known in the early years of Nabonidus. When I collated the text I was happy...to the Ebabbara in the second year of Nabonidus, which calls to mind the white horse...qbar{i}pu by the name of Balassu in Nabonidus year 14. Unless something very interesting...
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encyclopedia articles on: Nabonidus  - 8 results

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Nabonidus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NABONIDUS nab ni d s, d. 538? b.c., last...threat of Cyrus the Great grew strong, Nabonidus allied himself with Croesus of Lydia...kingdom fell to Cyrus with no resistance. Nabonidus scholars preserved information valuable...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Media west and north. He pushed into Asia Minor, where Croesus , the king of Lydia, vainly sought by an alliance with Nabonidus of Babylonia and Amasis II of Egypt to withstand the conqueror. Cyrus crushed the coalition, and by 546 b.c. the greatness...
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Ur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Babylon. The city was destroyed and rebuilt throughout the years by various kings and conquerors, including Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus in the 6th cent. About the middle of the 6th cent., Ur went into a decline from which it never recovered. A record dated...
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Nebuchadnezzar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...hanging gardens was then the greatest city of the ancient world. However, Babylon was shortly to fall under conquest when Nabonidus was king. The book of Daniel depicts Nebuchadnezzar as a conceited and domineering king and tells of his going mad and eating...
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Kish , Ancient City, Mesopotamia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...own. There is an excavated palace of Sargon I of Agade, a native of Kish, and a great temple built by Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus in the later Babylonian period. The site also yielded a complete sequence of pottery from the Sumerian period to that of...
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