The society often makes a big fuss about so called pivitol dates.
I think these are 15 CE and 536 BCE.
My question is do archeologists and historians see these also as pivitol dates from which to work or is it just the witnesses?
Pivitol dates.
by sleepy 5 Replies latest jw friends
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sleepy
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TD
The short answer to your question is “no.”
539 B.C.E. and 14 C.E are “pivotal” in the sense that JW’s refer to them as such only inasmuch as they serve as anchor points for their Biblical chronology and prophetic speculation
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Makena1
OK - I know the "significance" of 539 BCE - what is up with 14CE - Must have missed that chapter somewhere along the way.
Makena
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sleepy
Its to date the baptism of Jesus.
(Luke 3:1)
This helps to work out the date of 70 weeks of years by working backward(as usual) from jesus baptism. -
edward gentry
14ce...jesus baptism!
I never heard THAT one before.actually, never heard 14 ce mentioned at all.
Brother are you in error or have they changed that from 29ce to 14ce?
this prompts me to ask(a recollection)anybody read that ANCIENT Wt
where its saying that good old pastor Russell was sat, superlate at night, pouring over his fathers business books?
The significant thing was that he was 12 years old, same age as jesus when he was discussing theology with the older men in the temple.
The only bible ref to the Christ between his birth and his baptism.
Linking Russells behaviour to Christs there. -
aChristian
Historians tell us that following the death of Augustus the Roman Senate named Tiberius emperor of Rome on September 15 in the year 14 AD. Luke 3:1-3,21 indicates that Jesus was baptized "in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar." Using the "accession year" system of reckoning, which historians tell us the Romans used to count the years of their emperors' reigns (in which their first full calendar year of reign was counted as their first year), the year 29 AD would have been "the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar" and the year of Jesus' baptism.