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Postdiluvian history according to Berossus (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


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Berossus
kings
lists
postdiluvian age
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires 		Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Xisouthros = Ziusudra, Medes = Gutians.

Berossus, Babyloniaca F5a:
Polyhistor counts in all 86 kings from Xisouthros and from the Flood until the Medes took Babylon. He mentions each of them by name on the authority of the book of Berossus. He sums up the whole period as containing 33,091 years.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F5a

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 21Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.
Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 52Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

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Amar Annus


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