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"Even if we cannot make an absolute chronology, a relative one can be made. Such a chronology can be quite good, and I do not reject the Assyrian king lists or other king lists, I have just asked why we should trust these lists more than the Biblical chronological lists. And behind such a question is the challenge to demonstrate that either of the lists are right and wrong. So far I have not seen any plausible chronology going back to the third millennium BCE. All I have seen build on several assumptions and axioms and are not better than these. I would like to stress that I do not reject historical reconstructions and chronologies, I just ask that we critically scrutinize their foundations in order to discover circularity and questionable axioms. One such fallacy is to to put age above quality." Furuli

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Greetings from bella Italia

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Greetings from Germany - Guido

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Here is some information regarding BM 65494. Here, this tablet is a business tablet and it is an original one too. The date of this tablet is "Artaxerxes VI.4.50." Here traditional chronology gave him of 41 years of ruling and that is why tha others believe that this PROBABLY a scribal error. Why would they say this? Because they were tought of traditional chronlogy and this is the reason why that they say it was an error. Regarding errors, most likely you would find a scribal error on a copy text like VAT 4956 and not on an orginal text BM 65494. Regarding, Josephus chronlogy and the chronology of Berosses. Josephus gives the same years in the cases of only Labashi Marduk and Naboid, the other cases regarding the rulings of the kings are totally differant!! So, did Ptolemy switch the bible chronology of 70 years to babylonian of 50 years. No. He just mentioned two differant chronologies!!

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Best regards - Paula

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The research behind the date of 607bce has always crossed my eyes because it is always 20 years off every other record for the fall of Jerusalem. This makes for really big ripples, theologically speaking; at least for a witness.

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I saw your thread about this subject a couple of years ago on a JW DB. I contacted you about it but had no clue about the real issues at hand. Over two years on and now I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! I thought you'd like to know. :)

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you have been a huge help! thank you!

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Furuli vs Jonsson? www.yhwhbible.ca.tc