Belshazzar in the Nabonidus texts
A figure once cited as proof that Daniel was fiction turns out to be documented in Babylonian records — including the co-regency that makes the book's odd detail about "third ruler" make sense.
Названо вне БиблииДревний автор6th century BC
Belshazzar was long treated as a biblical invention, since Babylonian king lists end with Nabonidus. Then cuneiform texts turned up naming Belshazzar as Nabonidus's son, entrusted with the kingship while his father was away at Teima for years — which also explains why Daniel's Belshazzar can only offer the third place in the kingdom, not the second.
He entrusted the camp to his eldest son, the firstborn… he let everything go, entrusted the kingship to him.
- Найдено
- Babylonia (Sippar, Ur and elsewhere) — Nineteenth-century excavations
- Хранится
- British Museum and other collections
- Язык
- Akkadian
- Как это дошло до нас
- Раскопано или до сих пор стоит там, где было построено.
Что она показывает
Belshazzar's existence and co-regency are secure. The book of Daniel's wider historical setting — including its "Darius the Mede" — remains genuinely disputed, and this item does not resolve that.
Как это используют историки
Standard in Assyriology; the Nabonidus–Belshazzar arrangement is discussed independently of any biblical question.
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Источники
- Dougherty, Nabonidus and Belshazzar (Yale Oriental Series, 1929)
- Belshazzar — overview and bibliography
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