No answer from Concerned JW, huh? I guess he/she is not concerned about this thread anymore. You would not get a staight answer from my jw brother either.
A concerned JW wrote "mistakes will happen."
by InterestedOne 225 Replies latest jw friends
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mrsjones5
He/she/it got outed again. :D
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Black Sheep
The Oct 2011 public WT says that Josephus put Evil-SmellyDuck's reign at 18 years.
Was that a mistake?
A deliberate deception?
What?
I took a pic of this page out of my own copy.
The same box says that Josephus put Neriglissar's reign at 40 years. This is a known transcription error.
Was that a mistake?
A deliberate deception?
What?
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InterestedOne
The Oct 2011 public WT says that Josephus put Evil-SmellyDuck's reign at 18 years.
Is there a chance they got 18 from some other work by Josephus? I didn't see them provide a specific reference for where they got 18 from.
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InterestedOne
Here is a quote with 18 and 40 I found from Josephus "Antiquities of the Jews" which says:
When Evil-Merodach was dead, after a reign of eighteen years, Niglissar, his son, took the government, and retained it forty years, and then ended his life . . .
I see what you mean about the 40 though. Their chart looks stupid if the 40 is a known error for what should have been 4.
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The Quiet One
These are just quotes/links, I've no idea whatsoever personally... http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev4.htm ''When it comes to Babylonian chronology,Josephus is of highly questionable reliability. For example, in the same passage in which he assigns 18 years to Evil-merodach ( Antiquities of the Jews 10.11.2), he also assigns forty years to Neriglissar; however, in accordance with the accepted dating, we have early Babylonian records that refute Josephus' suggestion, as I cited previously.'' ''Furuli's discussion of Flavius Josephus' information about the Neo-Babylonian chronology is notreliable because it is partially based on an obsolete text of Josephus' works. He starts by quoting Josephus' distorted figures for the Neo-Babylonian reigns at Antiquities X,xi,1-2: "Nabopolassar 29 years, Nebuchadnezzar 43 years, Amel-Marduk 18 years, Neriglissar 40 years." (p. 69) Furuli got these figures from William Whiston's antiquated translation of 1737, which was based on a text that is no longer accepted as the best textual witness.'' http://onlytruegod.org/jwstrs/WT-App.htm ''the January 1, 1965 issue of The Watchtower had an article entitled "The Rejoicing of the Wicked Is Short-lived" that stated on page 29: " Evil-merodach reigned two years and was murdered by his brother-in-law Neriglissar , who reigned for four years''-
