Doug Mason
Post 693
I have given you the section of material in the Babylon book and you should also consult Ezra 3:1-6 for the timing of the Return.
scholar JW
The WTS's endpoint of the "70 Years"?
by Doug Mason 44 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Doug Mason
Post 703
As have already said secular authorities are rather vague about the historicity of the Return so it is not surprising that the articles from the EB are rather fuzzy on the matter. Celebrated WT scholars are not so fuzzy on the subject and in WT literature they have provided an accurate history and chronology of that period. So it is that the Return of the Jews was in Tishri, 537 BCE for this is the most suitable of all other interpretations offered by secular scholars.
I know that the above is not to your liking but you will find that the situation is the same regardless of what date you prefer. You demand certainty on certain matters and that scholarship cannot provide so you must be content as I am with what we know and what we can know rather than what cannot be known. The Bible, science and history was not designed to meet the demands of the 21st century human whereby we are used to daily newspapers dated accordingly for the scribes in the ancient world wrote for their day and times and not for us today.
scholar JW
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Narkissos
The Bible, science and history was not designed to meet the demands of the 21st century human whereby we are used to daily newspapers dated accordingly for the scribes in the ancient world wrote for their day and times and not for us today.
scholar JWYou are so very right scholar.
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Doug Mason
Thanks, JD