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Berossus

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') was an early-3rd-century BCE Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, priest of Bel Marduk, and astronomer who wrote in the Koine Greek language.

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related to Bibliography · 77
Berossus → An Introduction, Anchor Doubleday, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern History, Ancient Oriental Traditions, Ancient West, Ann Arbor, Antiochos, Babyloniaka, Babylonian Cosmology, Bach, Beaulieu, Berossos, Bible, Blenkinsopp, Burstein, Cambridge University Press, Chisholm, Classical, Creation Story
related to Transmission and reception · 51
Berossus → AD, Aetius, Alexander, Alexander Polyhistor, Antioch, Apamea, Aratus, Assyria, Assyrians, Athenaeus, Babylonaica, Babylonia, BC, Berossos, Caesar Augustus, Censorinus, Christian, Cleomedes, Cnidus's Persica, Ctesias
related to Book 2 · 42
Berossus → Aloros, Alulim, Apollodorus, Assyria, Assyrian, Babylon, Babylonian, Babylonian Flood, BC, Book, Derketo, El-Amarna, Epic, Eusebius, Flood, From Berossus, Gilgamesh, Greek, Hammurabi, He
related to Book 3 · 29
Berossus → AD, Again, Alexandria, Antiochus, At, Babylon, Babylonian, BC, Book, Canon, Chronicle, Greek, Hebrew Bible, Here, History, Jewish, Josephus, King-List, Nabonassar, Nabonidus
related to Life and work · 27
Berossus → Antiochus, Aratum Reliquiae, Aratus, Athens, Babylonia, Babyloniaca, Babylonian, BCE, Book, Censorinus, Certain, Commentariorum, Elder, Flavius Josephus, Graecos, History, However, Latin, Macedonian/Seleucid, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
related to history · 26
Berossus → Antiochus, Armenian, As, Babyloniaca, Babylonian, Berossos, Biblical, Caesarea, Christian Eusebius, Chronological Canons, Eusebius, Great Temple, Greek, History, It, Jerome, Josephus, Lambert, Latin, Marduk
related to Memory · 14
Berossus → Another, Athens, Babylonian, Elder, For, Greek, Hebrew Sibyl, In, Island, Kos, Pausanias, Pliny, Some, Vitruvius
related to Sources and content · 12
Berossus → Babylonian, Babylonians, Chronicon, Ecloga Chronographica, Eusebius, Greek, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, Syncellus, The Armenian, This, What
related to External links · 10
Berossus → Archived, BerossusAn Historical Treatise, Chaldæan History, Fragments, March, Noah Into Europe, Richard Lynche, Translated, Travels, Wayback Machine
related to Name · 6
Berossus → Bel, Bēl-rē’ûšunu, Bēl-uṣuršu, Lord, Marduk, The

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history babylonian eusebius greek ad bc ancient josephus lost fragments works sources century probably book however kings christian babyloniaca work

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Berossusrelated to BibliographyBach0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyJohannes0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyBerossos0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyAntiochos0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyBabyloniaka0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyAncient West0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyEast0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyBeaulieu0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyPaul-Alain0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyCreation Story0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyJournal0.60section
Berossusrelated to BibliographyAncient Near Eastern History0.60section

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