Alan F
Post 5125
Wrong as usual. Celebrated WT scholars did not for the first time as you allege that the application of the 390 years was featured in the Kingdom Is At Hand published in 1944 by means of a chart. This chart makes no mention of this application but simply provides a tabulated chronology. Further, it was in the November 15, 1937 Watchtower that such application was made with an adjoining major fulfillment upon Christendom. Get your facts right!
At last you get something right by your astute observation that it was first with the publication of Aid to Bible Understanding in 1969 that the 390 years of Ezekiel presented as the Divided Monarchy was also in agreement with Jewish tradition.
Yes, following your logic no one knows the precise year for the Fall of Jerusalem and yet apostates are foolishly dogmatic in asserting that 607 cannot be that year. When you have certainty on the matter then and only then can you dismiss the claim of the celebrated Wt scholars regarding the potency of 607 BCE.The very fact that the Bible gives different regnal years for the reign of Nebuchadnezzer in regards to the Fall is made a problem by the higher critic and apostates who have stumbled over their sloppy and foolish methodology. Wsely, the celebrated ones have because of using an 'event-based 'methodology have easily harmonized the data. No problem here but big problem for you.
So, whose chronology is correct Tjhiele's which you pretend to endorse or Jeffro's? What about Tadmor, Hyatt or Cogan's just to confuse matters further?
You state that chronology of the Divided Monarchy prior to the NB is irrelevant but that is a stupid statement to make. I have long stated that chronology is dependent on history and if cannot get the history right then the chronology is flawed. An accurate chronology of the Divided Monarchy is absolutely vital because it provides the historical context for the events of that late Judean period.
The chronologies of Thiele and apostates is flawed because it uses a sloppy methodology namely regnal -based and ignores the biblical 'seventy years' which negates such flawed chronologies. A simple event- based methodology is not handicapped by trying to harmonize all of the biblical data which at this stage of current scholarship is impossible because there is much of the past that is simply not known.
The understanding of Ezekiel's 390 years period of iniquity, Age of Wrath, Divided Monarchy presented by the 'celebrated WT scholars finds support in Jewish tradition and more recently, the Dead Sea Scrolls. You would like more information but you are a rude fellow so you do the research on the Scrolls or has scholar got to hold your hand for you as usual. As usual you accuse the Society of poor referencing or misleading references and yet you get your facts completely wrong.
scholar JW