Berossus & Manetho · a new plain-English translation from the original language
F8. Berossus mentions our father Abraham without naming him, speaking thus: 'In the tenth generation after the flood there was among the Chaldeans a certain man, just and great and skilled in the heavenly things.'
F13. Berossus mentions Babadas, king of the Babylonians.
F14a. In Zedekiah's twelfth year as king, Nabuchodonosor — seventy years before the supremacy of the Persians — marched against the Phoenicians and the Jews, as Berossus says in the Chaldean histories; and Juba, writing on the Assyrians, acknowledges that he took the account from Berossus, bearing witness to the man's truthfulness.
F15. That Berossus too agrees about the times of which we speak — he who practiced philosophy among the Chaldeans and made the Chaldean writings known to the Greeks — who has said certain things in accord with Moses, telling of the flood and of many other matters. Indeed he has also spoken in partial agreement with the prophets Jeremiah and Daniel, for he relates what befell the Jews at the hands of the king of the Babylonians, whom he himself names Abobassaros but who is called among the Hebrews Nabuchodonosor. He records also concerning the temple in Jerusalem, that it was laid waste by the king of the Chaldeans; and that when Cyrus stood in the second year of his kingship the temple's foundations were laid, and when Darius in his turn stood in his second year the temple was completed.
F16. As images of the gods they have not taken up wood and stone, like the Greeks, nor yet ibises and mongooses, like the Egyptians, but fire and water, like philosophers. Yet after many cycles of years thereafter, Berossus shows in the third book of the Chaldaica that they worshipped statues in human form — Artaxerxes son of Darius, son of Ochus, having introduced this: he first set up the statue of Aphrodite Anaitis in Babylon and Susa and Ecbatana, and taught the Persians and Bactrians, and Damascus and Sardis, to worship it.
F16a. Saracheiro: in Berossus, the adorner of Hera.