Donald wiseman

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Professor Donald John Wiseman OBE FBA

By Isaac Bate

Bibliography

Various Authors. (2012). Donald Wiseman. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Wiseman. Last accessed 16th Sep 2012.

The telegraph. (2010). Professor Donald Wiseman. Available: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/7252002/Professor-Donald-Wiseman.html. Last accessed 6/10/12.

Foundation of interest

Donald wisman's archaeological interest began with the books that his father wrote with his air force comrades. His father P J Wiseman worked in the air force for britain but was based in the middle east and whilst there vistited many archaeological digs which was what gave him and his comrades the information to write his three part thesis.

Biggest achievements

Donald Wisemans biggest achievement in the archaeological world is the foundation of dates of King Nebuchadnezzar the second, The first king of Neo-Babylonian Empire. He discovered the dates of King Nebuchadnezzar first invasion and capture of Jerusalem as 16/5 597 BC.

Donalds biggest known piece of work is called the Wiseman Hypothesis or Tablet Thoery which consisits of his theory's about tablets and language of ancient times focusing mainly on theorys about Babylonian times and religion.

Who was Donald Wiseman

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Education

•FBA= Fellow British Academy

•OBE=Order of British Empire

Donald Wisman was born in Hampshire, U.K in 1918 and lived in britain through the majority of his 91 years alive.

In Donald Wiseman's years studying he attneded Dulwich college and Kings collage before the war where he won the McCaul Prize for having the best end of examination score in Hebrew. After the war he studied oriental languages at Wadham College of Oxford under Godfrey Driver and Oliver Gurney which for his efforts he gained a masters degree.

Donald Wiseman was a Professor of Assyriology(Ancient Linguistics), Writer, Archaeologist and was a R.A.F Group Captain at the end of WW2 leading military intellegence. He also was the chairman of the house of Tyndale from Cambridge which housed students studying religion and scholars. In his years of retirement he became an honorary member of the School of Oriental and African studies and a fellow of Kings College.

What He Did

Donald Wiseman worked with multiple archaeologist's including Leonard Wooley. When Leonard Wooley excavated the cuneiform tablets in Syria. Donald Wiseman spent the next four years of his life at the British museum deciphering the tablets.

He also wrote multiple books about his archaeological work and his work in ancient linguistics tablets.

When studying the work of scholars he determined the date of which Nebuchadnezzar stormed Jerusalem as 597B.C which to this day is still the most educated and accurate dating of the siege of Jerusalem.

Whilst being the chairman of Tyndale house he wrote multiple religious thesis with help from the students studying religion at the Tyndale House.

Books

Alalakh Tablets (1953) Chronicles of the Chaldean Kings (626-556 BC) in the British Museum (1956) The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon (1958) Illustrations from Biblical Archaeology (1958) Archaeological Confirmation of the Old Testament (1958) Peoples of Old Testament Times (1973) Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon (1985) 1 and 2 Kings (1993) Life Above and Below (2003)