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by Zico 290 Replies latest jw friends

  • M.J.
    M.J.

    Interesting. I just looked up "Babylonian Exile" in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Just thought I'd share:

    Babylonian Exile

    altEncyclopædia Britannica Article also called Babylonian Captivity, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter's conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 BC . The exile formally ended in 538 BC , when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great , gave the Jews permission to return to Palestine. Historians agree that several deportations took place (each the result of uprisings in Palestine), that not all Jews were forced to leave their homeland, that returning Jews left Babylonia at various times, and that some Jews chose to remain in Babylonia—thus constituting the first of numerous Jewish communities living permanently in the Diaspora (q.v.).

    "Babylonian Exile ." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 3 May 2006 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011622>.

  • AuldSoul
    AuldSoul

    It's official, scholar. You told me you would answer tomorrow (5/3/2006) those five questions you enjoyed so much. Unless you live in Pacific Standard Time you missed it, if you do live in PST you have 1 hour and fifteen minutes.

    My questions were raised in the spirit of 1 John 4:1. To put the authoritative words to trial, you must challenge them as if they are not authoritative. If you choose not to challenge the WT scholars, you choose to ignore 1 John 4:1.

    AuldSoul

  • scholar
    scholar

    MJ

    The reference to the Jewish exile according to the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is most interesting because it indicates that 538 BCE was the year in which Cyrus; decree to release the Jews but does not indicate that they returned home in that year. Scholars comment about the decree but are very silent when it comes to exactly when the Jews returned home. Celebrated WT scholars have discerned that they returened home by the seventh month of 537 which allowed for the long journey home from Babylon to Judah.

    scholar JW

  • scholar
    scholar

    Auld Soul

    You will have to exercise a little more patience as it seems that I will not be able to give a considered reply to your five questions until Saturday. When I post on this board I get bombarded with many posts requiring some reply so this creates more than the usual workload. I have also promised to deal with issues raised by Alan F and I have to give this some attention also in due course. But the answers will come in due course.

    scholar JW

  • AuldSoul
    AuldSoul

    Okay...

  • AlanF
    AlanF

    scholar pretendus wrote:

    : . . . the answers will come in due course.

    Riiiiiiight.

    Just like your claimed answer to my "15 hour post" many months ago has come in due course.

    LOL! You're the biggest joke on this board!

    AlanF

  • M.J.
    M.J.

    So...it took 'em a year to get going back to Jerusalem. That is a long journey indeed.

  • stevenyc
    stevenyc
    Spectrum

    What you ask for is a hypothetical. I could just as easily turn the question aroiund and ask for your conersion if a tablet is found confirming 607. The fact is that the Bible and the Bible alone is the basis for 607 and Bible is God's Word as truth wheras men's words are lies.

    scholar JW

    This statement is absolutely false. Nowhere in the bible are dates set for either the destruction of Jerusalem of the rebuilding of the temple. The only references given are regarding regnal years of kings. The ONLY way to convert these regnal years is to use extra-biblical references. Jehovah's witnesses choose, change, choose and change the secular references used for one purpose, and one purpose only. To arrive at the date 1914.

    Secular authorities have no investment whatsoever in prophecy. Their work is academic in trying to discover history. If the academic community discovered new historical testament to show the destruction of Jewruselem to be 627, they would be intreeged not enraged. Unlike scholar JW.

    steve

  • scholar
    scholar

    MJ

    Celebrated WT scholars have suggested the trek back to Judea from Babylon need only have four months. Advocates of the 538 BCE would have a journey of some days of hours in order for to have been completed within that year.

    scholar JW

  • scholar
    scholar

    Alan F

    For a joker on this board I certainly get your full attention...

    scholar JW

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