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Of the people rescued from the Flood (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Deluge 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.04 Deluge Heavenly book of life 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.05 Celestial imagery 01.05.10 Heavenly book of life	Keywords Babylon Berossus flood
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F4b:
When these people (rescued from the flood) came to Babylon, they dug up the writings at (the city) of the Sipparians and founded many cities and rebuilt shrines and founded anew Babylon.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F4b

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 21

Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus

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