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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Berosus
		The meaning of his name is uncertain, notwithstanding the fanciful etymology of Scaliger and others who claim it is composed of Bar and Hosea, "Son of Hosea".
		It is doubtful, however, whether the Babylonian Berosus is the same person as the astronomer Berosus of whom many Greek and Latin historians make mention.
		Berosus wrote a history of Babylonia, probably under title of "Babyloniaca", though it is referred to under the title of "Chaldaica" by Josephus and Clement of Alexandria.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02514a.htm (1595 words)

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		Berosus (also spelled Berossus) was a 3rd century BC Chaldean priest who wrote three books in Greek about the creation and the early history of the world.
		Berosus was a Chaldean priest of Bel at Babylon who was aquainted with both astronomy and the history of the ancient world.
		Berosus, as a Babylonian priest who could speak Greek, was surrounded by an enquiring public who no doubt encouraged him to write his histories.
	www.annomundi.com /history/berosus.htm (2324 words)

	Berosus
		According to Vitruvius and Pliny (whose testimony, taken as a whole, is to be accepted with caution), Berosus was profoundly versed in the science of astronomy and astrology; that much is certain.
		And when Xisuthros asked in which direction he should steer his vessel, he was told 'toward the gods', and to pray that good should come of it to men.
		The chronological history of Babylonia, according to Berosus, was as follows: The first period, reaching from the Creation to the Flood, is said to have included ten reigns of 432,000 years.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/berosus.html (1569 words)

	Berosus (3rd century B.C.)
		Berosus, we are told, maintained that the moon's rotation on her axis was of the same length as her synodical revolution (i.e.
		Fabulous stories gathered round the name of Berosus, who has been placed in very fanciful epochs; but there is no reason to suppose more than one, the astronomer of the age of Alexander and his successors.
		Little as we know of him or of his works, Berosus serves to represent the long series of Chaldean observers on whose continuous labours the early growth of astronomy and of chronology was based.
	www.usefultrivia.com /biographies/berosus_001.html (0 words)

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