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Belshazzar appears in many works of classical Jewish rabbinic literature.

The chronology of the three Babylonian kings is given in the Talmud ( Megillah 11a-b ) as follows: Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years, Evil-merodach twenty-three, and Belshazzar was monarch of Babylonia for two years, being killed at the beginning of the third year on the fatal night of the fall of Babylon ( Meg.

11b ).