Who was Nebuchadnezzar II

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Who was Nebuchadnezzar II? One of the most famous Babylonian kings, thanks to his appearances in the Hebrew Bible, Nebuchandezzar II is known to most as a despotic ruler who destroyed Jerusalem, exiled the Hebrew people, and then went mad before acknowledging the superiority of YHWH. But who was he really? In this video, I take a look at the different sources known to us from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and Greek historians. • EDIT: Herodotus lived in the 5th c. BCE, not the 4th. • NOTE: This is not intended to be an exhaustive study, and there are things I have left out for the sake of brevity! • 𒀭Support Digital Hammurabi!𒀭 • Books by Digital Hammurabi Press: • NEW! • The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament • Joshua Bowen (2021) • (https://tinyurl.com/4jj2tcny) • Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian for the Absolute Beginner • Joshua Bowen Megan Lewis (2020) • (https://tinyurl.com/yatg8ty3) • Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? • Joshua Bowen (2020) • (https://tinyurl.com/y6uytbkv) • Learning to Pray in a Dead Language: Education and Invocation in Ancient Sumerian • Joshua Bowen (2020) • (https://tinyurl.com/2f5rd7tc) • Patreon – https://bit.ly/2EJVEdj • PayPal - https://bit.ly/2PUp49A • Shirts and Chandise – https://bit.ly/2QKAuSH • Amazon Wishlist – https://amzn.to/2CsDhak • Website – https://bit.ly/2V0ZaVw • Twitter – https://bit.ly/2T6uJLV • Contact – [email protected] • Online resources: • Mesopotamian chronicles: https://www.livius.org/sources/about/... • Nebuchandezzar II: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/ba... • Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... • Babyloniaca http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/wp-content... • Herodotus: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E... • Against Apion: https://www.livius.org/sources/conten... • On the Antiquity of the Jews: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t... • Bibliography: • Becking, B. 2009. ‘Does Exile Equal Suffering? A Fresh Look at Psalm 137’, in Exile and Suffering: A selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, p. 181-202. (https://bit.ly/2Yy0l3v) • Bosworth, A. B. 1996. ‘The Historical Setting of Megasthenes’ Indica’, in Classical Philology, vol. 91 no. 2 p. 113-127. (https://bit.ly/2JSYcHs) • Cogan, M. and H. Tadmor, 1988. ‘II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary’. • Da Riva, Rocio. 2008. ‘The Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions: An Introduction’. • Eph’al, I. 2003. ‘Nebuchadnezzar the Warrior: Remarks on his Military Achievements’, in the Israel Exploration Journal, vol. 53 no. 2, p. 178-191. • Grabbe, L. L. 2007. ‘Ancient Israel. What do we know and how do we know it?’. (https://bit.ly/2SDu6u4) • McNamara, M. 1970. ‘Nabonidus and the Book of Daniel’, in Irish Theological Quarterly. vol. 37, p. 131-49. (https://bit.ly/32RufPh) • Newsom, C. A. 2010. ‘Why Nabonidus? Excavating Traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and Neo-Babylonian Sources’, in S. Metso, H. Najman, and E. M. Schuller, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts, p. 57-80. • Newsom, C. A. 2014. ‘Daniel’, in The Old Testament Library. • Spar, Ira, and Michael Jursa. 2014. ‘Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C.’ () • Waerzeggers, C. 2012. ‘The Babylonian Chronicles: Classification and Provenance’, in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, p. 285-298. • Weidner, E. F. 1939. ‘Jojachin, König von Juda, in babylonischen Keilschrifttexten’. • Images: • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

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