Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 173
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“The Babyloniaca survives only in fragments preserved in quotations by later writers such as Josephus and Eusebius of Caesarea, who themselves were quoting abridgements of Berossus by Alexander Polyhistor and Abydenus. A fragment of the Babyloniaca describing the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus is preserved in Josephus’s Against Apion (1.150–53/1.20). In it, Berossus dated the conquest of Babylon to the seventeenth year of Nabonidus. This date agrees with Babylonian contract texts, indicating that Berossus drew his information from a reliable historical source. Berossus proceeded to state that after Cyrus captured Babylon, he gave Nabonidus the province of Carmania.” (Pages 317–318)
“The origin of the daric is, however, a matter of secondary importance for the issue of Darius the Mede. What is significant is that a secular Greek writer and researcher affirmed the existence of a poorly known king named Darius who preceded Darius Hystaspes. The conventional history of Media and Persia, which is based largely on the Greek historian Herodotus, does not know of any such king.” (Page 321)
“The intent of the present article is to revive interest in the mention by two ancient extrabiblical sources of a king named Darius who preceded Darius (I) Hystaspes (522–486 BC).” (Page 316)
“The Remembrance of Daniel’s Darius the Mede in Berossus and Harpocration” (Page 315)
“Berossus and Harpocration refer to Darius only as ‘Darius,’ and not as ‘Darius the Mede,’ as in two of the eight instances where Daniel names Darius (Dan. 5:31[Eng.] / 6:1[MT]; 11:1). However, ‘the Mede’ was not part of Darius’s name any more than ‘the Persian’ was part of Cyrus’s name.” (Page 321)
- Title: Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 173
- Author: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Edition: 689–692
- Series: Bibliotheca Sacra
- Volume: 173
- Publisher: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- ISBN: 00061921
- Resource ID: LLS:BSAC173
- Resource Type: Journal
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