Chronicle
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The Fall of Nineveh โ Nahum and the Babylonian Chronicles
Nahum announces the destruction of Nineveh. An independent Babylonian chronicle records the city falling in 612 BCE. The event is superbly attested; the date of the text is where the argument turns circular, and this dossier says so.
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Wiseman, Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (1956)
The critical edition of the Neo-Babylonian chronicle tablets in the British Museum, including B.M. 21901. Open access.
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The Fall of Nineveh Chronicle (ABC 3), BM 21901
Babylonian chronicle tablet recording the years 616-609 BCE, including the campaign against Nineveh. The principal external witness to the fall of the Assyrian capital.