Berossus on Nebuchadnezzar (1)

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F8 (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.137-138):
Nabouchodonosoros learned soon after of his father’s death and settled the affairs of Egypt and the rest of the country. He gave control of the prisoners taken from Judea, Phoenicia and Syria, and Egypt to some of his friends and ordered them with most of his army and the rest of the spoils of war to march to Babylon. Then with a few of his followers he set out directly for Babylon across the desert. He took over the government of the Chaldeans, which during his absence had been ably administered and ruled by the noblest of them. He assumed command of the whole of his father’s realm. He ordered that the most suitable parts of Babylonia be found for the prisoners when they arrived.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F8
Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.137-138

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Amar Annus

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