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teman in contrast to his historically proven ten-year stay in tayma has
been explained by the seven-year-long construction period of the temple
at Jerusalem under solomon (1 kgs 6: 37–38), after which Nabonidus
came to worship the one true God.96 in general, one could also point
to the importance of the heptad as the number of completion97 or to a
connection with the seven stages of the destruction of the world tree in
dan 3: 22–23.98 the transfer of the Nabonidus material to palestine has
probably been made via the Jewish diaspora in Babylonia.99
96 Cf. lipiński 2006: 223.
97 Cf. dommershausen 1964: 72f; röllig 1964b: 29; Beaulieu 1989: 153; lemaire 2010a:
128.
98 Cf. meyer 1962: 45–48.
99 Cf. lemaire 2010a: 129, 134–138.