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Created page with "thumb|''Belshazzar’s Feast'', Rembrandt, 1636 '''Belshazzar''' (also spelled Balthazar; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר;<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1112.htm Strong's Hebrew: 1112. בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר], ''Bible Hub''</ref> reigned c. 550–539 BC) was the last king of Babylon during the Neo-Babylonian Empire. He was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar II (Hebrew: נְבוּכַדְנֶאצ..." |
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[[File:Belshazzar’s feast, by Rembrandt.jpg|thumb|''Belshazzar’s Feast'', Rembrandt, 1636]] | <!-- interlanguage:start -->[[ko:벨사살 (벨사자르)]]<!-- interlanguage:end -->[[File:Belshazzar’s feast, by Rembrandt.jpg|thumb|''Belshazzar’s Feast'', Rembrandt, 1636]] | ||
'''Belshazzar''' (also spelled Balthazar; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר;<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1112.htm Strong's Hebrew: 1112. בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר], ''Bible Hub''</ref> reigned c. 550–539 BC) was the last king of [[Babylon]] during the Neo-Babylonian Empire. He was the grandson of [[Nebuchadnezzar|Nebuchadnezzar II]] (Hebrew: נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5019.htm Strong's Hebrew: 5019. נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר], ''Bible Hub''</ref>) and the eldest son of Nabonidus, who reigned from 556 to 539 BC. Until the mid-nineteenth century, Belshazzar was known only from the [[book of Daniel]] and was absent from Babylonian historical records, leading some scholars to question the [[Bible]]’s historical reliability. This view changed with the discovery of Babylonian inscriptions bearing his name in 1854 and 1879, which confirmed his historical existence. | '''Belshazzar''' (also spelled Balthazar; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר;<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1112.htm Strong's Hebrew: 1112. בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר], ''Bible Hub''</ref> reigned c. 550–539 BC) was the last king of [[Babylon]] during the Neo-Babylonian Empire. He was the grandson of [[Nebuchadnezzar|Nebuchadnezzar II]] (Hebrew: נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5019.htm Strong's Hebrew: 5019. נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר], ''Bible Hub''</ref>) and the eldest son of Nabonidus, who reigned from 556 to 539 BC. Until the mid-nineteenth century, Belshazzar was known only from the [[book of Daniel]] and was absent from Babylonian historical records, leading some scholars to question the [[Bible]]’s historical reliability. This view changed with the discovery of Babylonian inscriptions bearing his name in 1854 and 1879, which confirmed his historical existence. | ||
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The discoveries of the Nabonidus Cylinder and the Nabonidus Chronicle affirmed that the Bible preserves a more precise historical record than any other ancient source. In 1854, the British magazine ''The Athenaeum<ref>An influential periodical focused on literature, science, and the arts, published in the United Kingdom between 1828 and 1921</ref>'' reported on the Nabonidus Cylinder unearthed at Ur, drawing particular attention to the appearance of Belshazzar’s name and emphasizing the inscription’s exceptional historical significance and scholarly value.[[file:아테나움, 1854년 | The discoveries of the Nabonidus Cylinder and the Nabonidus Chronicle affirmed that the Bible preserves a more precise historical record than any other ancient source. In 1854, the British magazine ''The Athenaeum<ref>An influential periodical focused on literature, science, and the arts, published in the United Kingdom between 1828 and 1921</ref>'' reported on the Nabonidus Cylinder unearthed at Ur, drawing particular attention to the appearance of Belshazzar’s name and emphasizing the inscription’s exceptional historical significance and scholarly value.[[file:아테나움, 1854년 3월호.jpg|thumb|200px|왼쪽|<small>''The Athenaeum'', March 1854, p. 341</small>]] | ||
{{quote |The most important fact, however, which they disclose, is, that the '''eldest son of Nabonidus''' was named '''Bel-shar-ezar''' (c), and that he was admitted by his father to a '''share in the government'''. This name is undoubtedly the '''Belshazzar (בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר) of Daniel''', and thus '''furnishes us with a key to the explanation of that great historical problem which has hitherto defied solution.''' We can now understand how Belshazzar, as joint king with his father, may have been Governor of Babylon, when the city was attacked by the combined forces of the Medes and Persians, and may have perished in the assault which followed ; while Nabonidus, leading a force to the relief of the place, was defeated, and obliged to take refuge in the neighbouring town of Borsippa (or Birs-i-Nimrud), capitulating, after a short resistance, and being subsequently assigned, according to Berosus, an honourable retirement in Carmania. '''By the discovery, indeed, of the name of Bel-shar-ezar, as appertaining to the son of Nabonidus, we are, for the first time, enabled to reconcile authentic history (such as it is related by Herodotus and Berosus, and not as we find it in the romance of Xenophon or the fables of Ctesias), with the inspired record of Daniel, which forms one of the bulwarks of our religion.'''|''The Athenæum'', J. Francis, March 1854, p. 341}} | {{quote |The most important fact, however, which they disclose, is, that the '''eldest son of Nabonidus''' was named '''Bel-shar-ezar''' (c), and that he was admitted by his father to a '''share in the government'''. This name is undoubtedly the '''Belshazzar (בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר) of Daniel''', and thus '''furnishes us with a key to the explanation of that great historical problem which has hitherto defied solution.''' We can now understand how Belshazzar, as joint king with his father, may have been Governor of Babylon, when the city was attacked by the combined forces of the Medes and Persians, and may have perished in the assault which followed ; while Nabonidus, leading a force to the relief of the place, was defeated, and obliged to take refuge in the neighbouring town of Borsippa (or Birs-i-Nimrud), capitulating, after a short resistance, and being subsequently assigned, according to Berosus, an honourable retirement in Carmania. '''By the discovery, indeed, of the name of Bel-shar-ezar, as appertaining to the son of Nabonidus, we are, for the first time, enabled to reconcile authentic history (such as it is related by Herodotus and Berosus, and not as we find it in the romance of Xenophon or the fables of Ctesias), with the inspired record of Daniel, which forms one of the bulwarks of our religion.'''|''The Athenæum'', J. Francis, March 1854, p. 341}} | ||
