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	Berossus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berossus (also Berossos or Berosus; Greek: Βεροσσος) was a Hellenistic Babylonian writer who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC.
		What we have of ancient Mesopotamian myth is somewhat comparable with Berossus, though the exact integrity with which he transmitted his sources is unknown, due to the fact that much of the literature of Mesopotamia has not survived.
		From Berossus' genealogy, it is clear he had access to king-lists in compiling this section of History, particularly in the kings before the Flood (legendary though they are), and from the 7th century BCE with Senakheirimos (Sennacherib, who ruled both Assyria and Babylon).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berossus (2201 words)

	Berossus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Berossus (Akkadian Bel-re'ušunu) was a Babylonian priest, who wrote a Greek History of Babylonia in the first half of the third century BC.
		This suggests that Berossus was born somewhere in the third quarter of the fourth century.
		Berossus, who is called Bel-re'ušunu in cuneiform documents, was a very important official: he served as šatammu, head of the temple organization, between 258 and 253 BCE This function gave him access to the archives of the Esagila, the temple of the Babylonian supreme god Marduk.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Berossus (411 words)

	Oannes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Berossus describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man. He is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf, and rising out of the waters in the daytime and furnishing mankind instruction in writing, the arts and the various sciences.
		The culture-myth on which the account of Berossus rests has not yet been found in Babylonian literature, but there are numerous indications in hymns and incantations that confirm the indentification with Ea, and also prove the substantial correctness of the conceptions regarding Oannes-Ea as given by Berossus.
		There are parts of the human body: emblems for the arms and legs, sprays of roses There are even, to suit the taste of their clients who belong to foreign the Queen" amid encircling stars, and figures of women taken from.
	www.termsdefined.net /oa/oannes.html (293 words)

	Flood -- The Lists of Antediluvian Kings: A Coded Document by Patrice Guinard
		B.C.), Uanna, Hellenized as Oannes by Berossus and given the epithet Adapa ("The Wise"), appears in the reign of A-lulim, the first antediluvian king in the form of a man clothed to resemble a fish.
		Berossus borrowed his narrative from the archives of Babylonia-Borsippa, and these archives themselves, with regard to the Creation and the first ages of the world, copied revelations ostensibly inscribed on tablets by Oannes, the first fish-man and "the inventor of letters, sciences and arts, the founder of laws, cities and all civilization.
		Berossus also indicates that Alaparos was the son of Aloros, and Xisouthros the son of Otiartes.
	cura.free.fr /11kings.html (2036 words)

	Ancient Mesopotamia in European Thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Berossus seems to have deliberately ignored the version of Mesopotamian history made popular by Ctesias's Persica, and stressed the importance of the Neo-Babylonian period, which had been almost entirely squeezed out of Ctesias's picture.
		Berossus was read certainly for about two hundred years following the appearance of his work; it is even possible that some copies of the Babyloniaca continued to circulate for another hundred years after that.
		One group that did find Berossus useful was Jewish and Christian writers to whom persons such as Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadrezzar), as the destroyer of the Jerusalem temple, were of prime interest.
	www.granta.demon.co.uk /arsm/jg/persica.html (4698 words)

	Berossus
		Berossus (Akkadian Bêl-re'uunu): Babylonian priest, who wrote a Greek history of Babylonia in the first half of the third century BCE.
		The Babylonian history or Babyloniaka of Berossus is dedicated to the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter, who ruled from 281 to 261 BCE.
		Berossus, who is called Bêl-re'uunu in cuneiform documents, was a very important official: he was atammu, head of the temple organization, between 258 and 253 BCE.
	www.livius.org /be-bm/berossus/berossus.html (436 words)

	a26kl
		The first three kings of the Berossus' list have reigns of 10-3-13 sars; the third number is the sum of the first two.
		Berossus coupled numbers by adding consecutive values, while the WB-62 scribe multiplied or divided some numbers by two to obtain his 456,000 total.
		The first point is that although Berossus differs considerably from the earlier lists, and they between themselves, there is enough to indicate that all are variants of a common legacy.
	www.world-destiny.org /a26kl.htm (2206 words)

	Amazon.fr : Berossus And Genesis, Manetho And Exodus: Hellenistic Histories And the Date of the Pentateuch: Livres en ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch.
		The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c.
		The late date of the Pentateuch, as demonstrated by literary dependence on Berossus and Manetho, has two important consequences: the definitive overthrow of the chronological framework of the Documentary Hypothesis, and a late, 3rd century BCE date for major portions of the Hebrew Bible which show literary dependence on the Pentateuch.
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	Berossus on Nebuchadnezzar
		The third book of Berossus' Babylonian history we find accounts of the reigns of several kings.
		Unfortunately, Berossus' own account is lost, but it was summarized by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in his Against Apion, which was translated by William Whiston.
		Berossus then says, "that this Babylonian king conquered Egypt [2], and Syria, and Phoenicia, and Arabia, and exceeded in his exploits all that had reigned before him in Babylon and Chaldaea."
	www.livius.org /be-bm/berossus/berossus-q02.html (478 words)

	Compendium of World History - Vol. 1
		The writings of Berossus, the contemporary of Manetho, are altogether lost.
		As generally recorded, Berossus' First Dynasty begins with Cush and Nimrod; the Second Dynasty was Median.
		Berossus designates 1500 as the year in which an Arabian dynasty of 9 kings wrested control of Babylonia from the Chaldeans.
	www.cgca.net /coglinks/wcglit/hoehcompendium/hhc1ch11.htm (3764 words)

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		In the 3rd century BCE, a Babylonian priest named Berossus wrote a history of Babylonia which dealt with the lengths of reigns of kings during the Neo-Babylonian period (Nabopolassar to Nabonidus).
		Portions of it are eaten away, but what is still preserved agrees with Berossus' and Ptolemy's lengths of reigns of the first two kings, Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar.
		H 1 B, gives the lengths of all the reigns of the Neo-Babylonian kings up to the 9th year of Nabonidus (except for Labashi-Marduk, whose short reign is ignored).
	www.truebiblecode.com /understanding99.html (435 words)

	FRAGMENTS OF CHALDÆAN HISTORY, BEROSSUS: FROM ALEXANDER POLYHISTOR.
		And when the sun had set, this Being Oannes, retired again into the sea, and passed the night in the deep; for he was amphibious.
		After this there appeared other animals like Oannes, of which Berossus proposes to give an account when he comes to the history of the kings.
		Belus formed also the stars, and the sun, and the moon, and the five planets.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/af/af02.htm (1478 words)

	Laputan Logic - Ziusudra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unfortunately, none of Berossus' books have survived and what we know about his writings has only come down to us from quotations made by later authors.
		Another was Alexander Polyhistor, a native of the Anatolian kingdom of Pontus on the Black Sea coast.
		He had originally came to Rome as a slave captured during the war with Mithradates of Pontus but he was eventually freed and became a Roman citizen.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2004/05/07-0001.html (2253 words)

	BEROSSUS - Online Information article about BEROSSUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eusebius, the latter of whom probably derived them not directly from Berossus, but through the See also:
		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.
		All that seems certain is that Berossus arranged his history so that it should fill the astronomical See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BEC_BER/BEROSSUS.html (555 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The central thesis of this book is that the Hebrew "Pentateuch" was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the "Pentateuch" into Greek.
		That the "Pentateuch", utilizing literary sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria, was composed at almost the same date as the Septuagint translation, provides compelling evidence for some level of communication and collaboration between the authors of the "Pentateuch" and the Septuagint scholars at Alexandria's Museum.
		The Date and Authorship of the Pentateuch; Appendix A. Berossus and Megasthenes; Appendix B. Theophanes of Mytilene; Appendix C. The Samaritan Pentateuch; Appendix D. The Rivers of Eden; Appendix E. Tarsus and the Nora Inscription; Appendix F. Seth-Typhon and the Jews.
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	November 11, Greek and Roman Religions
		Also, astronomical fragments by a Berossus are attributed to this figure, along with story that he moved to island of Cos (then in Ptolemaic hands); there is bebate whether these were the same people, and whether the astronomical fragments fit into the history of Babylon, or a separate work.
		It appears that Berossus is working within the genres of traditional (cuneiform) literature, although with some influences from the Greek tradition (Verbrugghe-Wickersham, pp.
		He was a contemporary of Berossus, and wrote like Berossus in Greek (and presumably for the new Greek aristocracy) about native history and culture.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~carlas/GRRnov11.htm (687 words)

	Heavenly Minds \| Main / BerossusAndMesopotamia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two other aspects of Berossus's Babyloniaka are more debated, and there is much less agreement.
		The first are of disagreement concerns the literary style and form employed by Berossus in constructing the Babyloniaka.
		But undisputedly in the first century B.C.E. a summary of the Babyloniaka was produced by a widely read Greek scholar, Alexander Polyhistor.
	www.innocence.com /games/taci/index.php?n=Main.BerossusAndMesopotamia (1210 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Berossus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
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	BEROSSUS: FROM APOLLODORUS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		is the history which Berossus has transmitted to us.
		He tells us that the first king was Alorus of Babylon, a Chaldæan: he reigned ten sari: and afterwards Alaparus, and Amelon who came from Pantibiblon: then Ammenon the Chaldæan, in whose time appeared the Musarus Oannes the Annedotus from the Erythræan sea.
		So that the sum of all the kings is ten; and the term which they collectively reigned an hundred and twenty sari.—Syncel.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/af/af03.htm (143 words)

	Research Sources For Astrology
		Berossus' work survives only in quotations in later works.
		Berossus, The Babyloniaca of Berossus, Translated by Stanley Mayer Burstein (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1978) {This is an English translation of the above without the Greek text.
		Berossus, Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated: native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, by Gerald Verbrugghe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996) {A recent text, translation and discussion}
	www.smoe.org /arcana/astrol4.html (2189 words)

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		Berossos (also Berossus or Berosus) Greek: Βεροσσος, fl.
		Each begins with a fantastic creation story, followed by a mythical ancenstral period, and then finally accounts of recent kings that appear to be historical, with no demarcations in between.
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		Certain words and phrases used in Genesis and parallel accounts such as heart, roof, cubits, seed, pitch, animals, fountain(s) of the deep, raven, dove, sweet savor, etc, make a compelling case for a common source for all the narratives and help corroborate a historical flood.
		The flood texts are from Ziusudra (in Sumerian), Atrahasis (in Accadian), the eleventh tablet of Gilgamesh (written in four languages), Genesis 6-9, Berossus, and a version from Moses of Khoren.
		"he sent his wife and children and friends on board" Berossus
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