by Doug Mason 2 Replies latest watchtower bible
I have made two corrections to my recently announced study, "Insight’s Reliance on Secular Sources", which is available at:
http://www.jwstudies.com/Insight_s_reliance_on_secular_sources.pdf
Corrections.
Page 3: an unwanted word "the" near the bottom of the page. The phrase should thus read: "Most significantly for its purposes"
Page 20: Should read "568 BCE for the 37th year of his son Nebuchadnezzar."
I have corrected the online file.
Doug
Noted. You've provided a valuable resource - the scans, very useful.
Great work Doug. I love your find of how the Insight Book deceptively quotes Ptolemy by excluding half the sentence. The Watchtower sets out to undermine Ptolemy through use of selective quoting that misrepresents the source.
"Professor O. Neugebauer states that Ptolemy complained about 'the lack of reliable planetary observations [from ancient Babylon]. He remarks that the old observations were made with little competence, because they were concerned with appearances and disappearances and with stationary points, phenomena which by their very nature are very difficult to observe.'" Insight p.456 "It is certainly a result of this situation that Ptolemy states that practically complete lists of eclipses are available since the reign of Nabonassar (747 B.C.) while he complains about the lack of reliable planetary observations. He remarks that the old observations were made with little competence, because they were concerned with appearances and disappearances and with stationary points, phenomena which by their very nature are very difficult to observe.'" The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Otto Neugebauer , p.98
