History Of Babylonia: ROGERS, Robert William, American Orientalist: b. Philadelphia, Pa., 14 Feb. 1864. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886, and later studied at Johns Hopkins, Haverford and Leipzig. Professor at Dickinson College in 1890-92; and in 1893-1929 professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at Drew Theological Seminary. He was visiting professor of oriental literature at Prince-ton after 1919. Author of 'Two Texts of Esar-haddon' (1889) ; 'Inscriptions of Sennacherib* (1893) ; 'History of Babylonia and Assyria' (2 vols., 1900) ; 'Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament' (1912) ; 'The Recovery of the Ancient Orient* (1912) ; 'Old Testament Lessons' (1920). Died Chadds Ford, Pa., 12 Dec. 1930.
Chronologists usually deal with historical times, but in the early period, even in countries such as Egypt and Babylonia where abundant records have survived and where careful observations of celestial phenomena were made, they often encounter great difficulty.
Lists of Assyrian kings covering the period from the 24th century to 746 B. c. were found in the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad. Of these, the Synchronous History records relations between Assyria and Babylonia for eight centuries preceding 800 B. c., and the Gadd Chronicle gives a good account of the closing years of the Assyrian Empire and the rise of the Late Babylonian Empire.
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