Back بيروسوس Arabic ܒܪܚܘܫܐ ARC بيروسوس ARZ Berós Catalan Béróssos Czech Berossos German Βηρωσσός Greek Beroso la ĥaldeo Esperanto Beroso el Caldeo Spanish Beroso Basque
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Berossus (/bəˈrɒsəs/) or Berosus (/bəˈroʊsəs/; Ancient Greek: Βηρωσσός, romanized: Bērōssos; possibly derived from Late Babylonian Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒉺𒇻𒋙𒉡, romanized: Bēl-reʾû-šunu, lit. 'Bel is his shepherd')[1][2] was an early-3rd-century BCE Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, a priest of Bel Marduk[3] and astronomer who wrote in the Koine Greek language.
His original works, including the Babyloniaca, have been lost but fragmentarily survive in some quotations, especially in the writings of the fourth-century CE Christian writer Eusebius.[4]
Berossus has recently been identified with Bēl-reʾû-šunu, a high priest of the Esagila Temple mentioned in a document from 258 BCE.[5]
- ^ "Bel-reʾušunu [1] (PN)". Bilinguals in Late Mesopotamian Scholarship. Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- ^ The suggestion was made by Heinrich Zimmern; cf. Lehmann-Haupt, "Neue Studien zu Berossos" Klio 22 (1929:29)
- ^ Seneca Nat. Questiones III.29: "Berosus, qui Belum interpretatus est...", "Berossus, who expounded the doctrine of Bel/Marduk" (interpretatus) as rendered by W. G. Lambert, "Berossus and Babylonian Eschatology" Iraq, 38.2 (Autumn 1976:171-173) p. 172.
- ^ Talon 2001, p. 270–274.
- ^ Bach 2013, p. 157–162.