Paul-Alain Beaulieu is a Canadian Assyriologist, a Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Beaulieu earned a master's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1980 under the supervision of Marcel Leibovici, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1985. He was an assistant and subsequently associate professor at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Toronto.

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Beaulieu is the author of: *''L'introduction du cheval et du char de guerre au Proche-Orient au IIe millénaire av. J.C.'' (Masters thesis, Université de Montréal, 1980).List of completed masters' theses in history
Univ. de Montréal, retrieved 2011-05-03 (in French). *''The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, 556–539 B.C.'' (Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, 1989, and Yale Near Eastern researches 10, Yale University Press, 1989, ). This was the first book in 60 years about

Nabonidus Nabonidus (Babylonian cuneiform: ''Nabû-naʾid'', meaning "May Nabu be exalted" or "Nabu is praised") was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 ...

, who was himself something of an archaeologist. In contrast to the previous book by Raymond P. Dougherty, Beaulieu's book downplays the role of Nabonidus' heterodox religious beliefs in causing his split rule with his son

Belshazzar Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: ''Bēl-šar-uṣur'', meaning " Bel, protect the king"; ''Bēlšaʾṣṣar'') was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (556–539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother he might ...

, instead highlighting political and economic factors. Beaulieu also compares the historical documents on Nabonidus' rule with the accounts of the same time in the

Book of Daniel The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology ( ...

. *''Late Babylonian Texts in the Nies Babylonian Collection'', Vol. 1 (CDL Press, 1994, ). *''Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus'' (Yale oriental series: Babylonian texts 19, Yale University Press, 2000, ). This book describes some 313 tablets from

Uruk Uruk, also known as Warka or Warkah, was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia) situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Harm ...

, in the collections of Yale University. They include letters on religious matters, land transfers, sales contracts, and legal documents. *''The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period'' (Cuneiform Monographs 23, Leiden & Boston: Brill/Styx, 2003, ). Reviewer Robert D. Biggs writes that "this is a major contribution to the study of ancient Mesopotamia" while M. A. Dandamayev calls it "an enormous step in the study of Babylonian religion". It includes chapters on the clothing ceremony, offering lists, and individual gods and their companions, and focuses particular attention on

Ishtar Inanna, also sux, 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒀭𒈾, nin-an-na, label=none is an List of Mesopotamian deities, ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, Divine law, divine justice, and political p ...

, the "lady of Uruk". *''A History of Babylon'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2011, ). *''The Cuneiform Uranology Texts'' (Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Eckart Frahm, Wayne Horowitz and John Steele). Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Published By: American Philosophical Society 2018 http://www.academia.edu & utoronto.academia.edu

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