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NABONIDUS nă’ bə nī’ dəs (Lat. form of Gr. Ναβουνάιδος, also Herodotus [i. 74], Ααβυνητος; Akkad. Nabū-Na’id [“the god Nabū is to be revered”]). The last king of Chaldaean Babylonia, 556-539 b.c. 1. Sources. An eighty-four line Babylonian Chronicle (BM 35382), three steles from Harran and a libelous VS ...
Bibliography. Web sources. Nabonidus ( Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-naʾid, [2] [3] meaning "May Nabu be exalted" [3] or "Nabu is praised") [4] was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.
- 25 May 556 BC – 13 October 539 BC
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Reign. Seal of the high priest of the moon god Sin, dating to 2100 B.C.E. Nabonidus' devotion to Sin was highly unusual, in that Marduk had been the chief god of Babylon for several centuries. In most ancient accounts, Nabonidus is depicted as a royal anomaly.
In this biblical account, Nabonidus, who is mistakenly identified as his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 605–562 B.C.), is described as a mad king obsessed with dreams. According to the Book...
Mar 4, 2024 · Interestingly, while Nabonidus is not mentioned in the Bible, some ancient texts suggest that he may have been. One text, 4Q242 from Qumran, also called the “Prayer of Nabonidus,” recounts the story of the Babylonian king driven to madness, told in Daniel 4.
Feb 24, 2012 · There may be many things we still do not know about the historical setting of Daniel, but we understand from Babylonian records that Nabonidus was the king of Babylon at this time (556–539 B.C.). How can it be said that Belshazzar is king, and how can Daniel be third in the kingdom (Daniel 5:7,16,29)?
One principal source of information about the rise of Cyrus the Great (559–530 B.C.) is the so-called Nabonidus Chronicle. The chronicle consists of a series of cuneiform tablets (such as the 5.5-inch-high fragment shown ) listing important events that took place during the reign of the Babylonian king Nabonidus (555–539 B.C.).
