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Sixty-two years of Darius, who was Cyrus ‘the Great’

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  by Damien F. Mackey     “ That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,  and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two”.   Daniel 5:30-31     Wonderful parallels this revision now offers   With Amēl-Marduk (Evil-Merodach) identified as Belshazzar – and the father, Nebuchednezzar, as Nabonidus – then we find (to be explained further below):   Amēl-Marduk governing Babylon while his father is (away and) incapacitated , and, likewise, Belshazzar, governing Babylon while his father is (away and) incapacitated .   And with Amēl-Marduk/Belshazzar further identified with Shamash-shum-ukin, a supposed brother of Ashurbanipal (my Nebuchednezzar/Nabonidus), but actually his son, then the apparent incarceration of the troublesome Amēl-Marduk by his father, Nebuchednezzar, accords well with the incarceration of the son, Nabu-shum-ukin (= Shamash-shum-...
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    by Damien F. Mackey   If Diocletian, a mirror-image of the emperor Augustus, was, in fact, said Augustus - whom I had already identified with the Seleucid tyrant, Antiochus IV ‘Epiphanes’, and with the emperor, Hadrian - then it would be reasonable to expect a significant census of the kingdom to have been issued by Diocletian (cf. Luke 2:1).     In my provocative article:   Diocletian repeating Augustus?   (4) Diocletian repeating Augustus?   I wrote as follows, quoting professor Gunnar Heinsohn:   “This transformation from a more central to a more decentralized administration did not take place 300 years after these massive internal conflicts, but during the time that  Augustus  was still emperor. Diocletian did not organize decentralization to weaken Rome, but to protect the capital. Diocletian was not an imitator of Augustus's reforms. He was directly responsible for their implementation...
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