Cultural depictions of Belshazzar information

Belshazzar (6th century BC), son of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire, Nabonidus, has inspired many works of art and cultural allusions, often...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Belshazzar. Cylinders of Nabonidus Cultural depictions of Belshazzar List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical...

Maurice Schwartz as Daniel Terence Kilburn as Cyrus Michael Ansara as Belshazzar Leslie Bradley as Nebuchadnezzar Ruth Storey as Rachel John Crawford as...

Scott. The film is a fictionalized depiction of the Fall of Babylon (539 BCE), and depicts the historical rulers Belshazzar (as Balthazar) and Cyrus the Great...

its illustrations: the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the fall of Belshazzar. Each of these is described powerfully, and the poetry...

liturgical in origin; it closely follows the narrative of the biblical story of Daniel at the court of Belshazzar. In the United States, the latter play was revived...

Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare (Cyrus in Babylon, or The Downfall of Belshazzar) is an azione sacra in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto...

provide an interpretation of the writings, upon which he explained that God had put an end to Belshazzar's kingdom. Belshazzar was killed that very night...

to as the father of Belshazzar in the Book of Daniel, it is probable that this portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar, especially the story of his madness, was actually...

in the desert of his colony of Arabia, near the southern frontier of his kingdom, leaving his son Belshazzar (Belsharutsur) in command of the army. In...

film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation...

the lineal representative of Belshazzar." He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters...

discussion of why the Cyrus Cylinder and later Persian texts never name Belshazzar, despite his close association with events associated with the fall of Babylon...

delivery from the den of the lions; and Belshazzar's feast and the deciphering of the mysterious writing. Other events from the Book of Daniel, such as Susanna...

2020. Dougherty, Raymond Philip (1929). Nabonidus and Belshazzar: A Study of the Closing Events of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. New Haven: Yale University...

Parthian origin. A king's cultural and ethnic background does not appear to have been important for the Babylonian perception of kingship, the important...