Museum’s tablet lends new weight to Biblical truth -Times Online
The Times Online reports that a cuneiform tablet dating to 595 BC (that’s BCE for some of you) offers extra-biblical evidence for the existence of an official under Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. This particular official, Nebo-Sarsekim, was previously only mentioned in Jeremiah (39:3).
The tablet has apparently been sitting in the British Museum’s archives since 1870.
For a translation of the tablet, see the Telegraph.
Update
- Christopher Heard of Higgaion weighs in this topic.
- Ancient Hebrew Poetry has a nice post summing up the situation and the evidence.
- Following Christopher Heard and John Hobbins, I’ll refer to this fellow not as Nebo-Sarsekim, but Nabu-sharrussu-ukin. This is so out of my field…I’m gonna trust ‘em!
- More from Christopher Heard: “Does the Nabu-sharrussu-ukin tablet prove biblical ‘corruption’?”
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For additional discussion, your readers might be interested in my initial post on the tablet and the comments that others have left on that post.
I’ve thrown in my two Assyriological two cents, for what it’s worth.
http://www.ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com
Thanks guys.
John, I edited your URL…
-stephen