Museum’s tablet lends new weight to Biblical truth — Times Online
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’?”
July 13th, 2007 at 2:13 am
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.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:32 am
[...] have appeared, for example, Claude’s follow-up as well as notices and comments by Peter Kirk, Stephen Hebert, BK (sorry, that’s all the ID I have), Limbidgit (twice: here and here), Metacatholic, Henry [...]
July 13th, 2007 at 9:02 am
I’ve thrown in my two Assyriological two cents, for what it’s worth.
http://www.ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com
July 13th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Thanks guys.
John, I edited your URL…
-stephen