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Baal-Eser I

Field	Value
name	Baal-Eser I
title	King of Tyre
reign	946 – 930 BC
predecessor	Hiram I 980 – 947 BC
successor	Abdastartus (‘Abd-‘Ashtart) 929 – 921 BC
dynasty	Dynasty of Abibaal and Hiram I
father	Hiram I
mother	unknown
birth_date	973 BC
birth_place	Tyre, presumed
death_date	930 or 929 BC

Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Ba‘l-mazzer I) was a king of Tyre. His father, Hiram I, was a contemporary of David and Solomon, kings of Israel. The only information available about Baal-Eser I comes from the following citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Josephus's Against Apion I.121:

Upon the death of Hirom, Beleazarus his son took the kingdom; he lived forty-three years, and reigned seven years: after him succeeded his son Abdastartus.

The dates for Baal-Eser are established from the dates for Hiram. The dating of Hiram and the following kings is based on the studies of J. Liver, J. M. Peñuela, F. M. Cross, and William H. Barnes, all of whom build on the inscriptional evidence of a synchronism between Baal-Eser II and Shalmaneser III in 841 BC. Earlier studies that did not take this inscriptional evidence into consideration will have differing dates for the kings of Tyre.

A further overview of the chronology of Tyrian kings from Hiram I to Pygmalion, with a discussion of the importance of Dido's flight from Tyre and eventual founding of Carthage for dating these kings, is found in the Pygmalion of Tyre article.

References

J. Liver, “The Chronology of Tyre at the Beginning of the First Millennium B.C.” ''Israel Exploration Journal'' 3 (1953) 119-120.
J. M. Peñuela, “La Inscripción Asiria IM 55644 y la Cronología de los reyes de Tiro”, ''Sefarad'' 13 (1953) 217-37 and 14 (1954) 1-39.
F. M. Cross, “An Interpretation of the Nora Stone,” ''Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research'' 208 (1972) 17, n. 11.
William H. Barnes, ''Studies in the Chronology of the Divided Monarchy of Israel'' (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991) 29-55.
Fuad Safar, “A Further Text of Shalmaneser III from Assur,” ''Sumer'' 7 (1951) 3-21.

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