What is his "hypothesis" regarding the motivation of someone changing the DATE on a clay tablet that is thousands of years old? A big conspiracy going back to (???) just to prove the WT wrong? Huh? I am sorry not to get deep into this but just on the surface, it looks like a ridiculous accusation in the first place.
Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?
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AnnOMaly
Furuli doesn't give any plausible motivations for the modern day tampering of this tablet other than either just to create a forgery and mislead people, or to correct the year figures to agree with the 'accepted chronology' (p. 108, 113-115, 137 [3rd revision]).
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possiblepineapple
Wouldn't the tablet have had to have been tampered with back in 1915 (which I do believe is when the first photo of it was released)? Would it have even been possible to tamper with it back then?
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possiblepineapple
Well yeah but did Furuli mention HOW they would alter the tablet? Would they have needed modern technology or could it be done by any old idiot?
Or has he just totally neglected to mention any of these specifics?
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Jeffro
There's no reason why scholars would 'tamper' with the tablet. There's simply no motive for 'changing' the original cuneiform on the tablet. When scholars translate such tablets, they note in their translations if they believe something is in error. And it would be incredibily difficult to make a convincing alteration in ancient cuneiform to a hard stone tablet. There certainly was no grand 'conspiracy' to 'change' the tablet just to make the Bible Students 'seem' wrong. Furuli is lucky that the people who translated the tablet in the early 20th century are already dead because otherwise he'd probably have a defamation suit on his hands.
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Jeffro
hamsterbait:
The Insight books easily prove the date of jerusalems fall, simply by referencing the Kings going back from Belshazzar.
They cannot provide the names of even one missing king.Side point...
This reminds me of Insight's 'explanation' for why there is no Egyptian record of the 'Exodus':
Thus, after the death of Queen Hatshepsut, Thutmose III had her name and representations chiseled out of the monumental reliefs. This practice doubtless explains why there is no known Egyptian record of the 215 years of Israelite residence in Egypt or of their Exodus.
Sorry... whose name did they chisel out of the monumental reliefs?! Apparently a failed attempt to erase records of one individual is 'evidence' for there being absolutely no record of 215 years of Israelite presence in Egypt. That's the 'quality' of Watch Tower Society 'scholarship' we're dealing with for 'explaining' the 20-year gap in their chronology of the Neo-Babylonian period.
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AnnOMaly
PP - Furuli hypothesizes that,
"... the one working with the tablet [i.e. somebody working at the Vorderasiatische Museum in the early 20th century] used a modern grinding machine on the edge of the tablet, thus incising the signs for 'year 37' and 'year 38'. The first line with the name of the king was also manipulated. Because of the vibration, the tablet broke into three pieces, which were then glued together. It was discovered that the fit of the signs on both sides of the break on the reverse side was not perfect, and a grinding machine was used to try to remedy this." (p. 360 [3rd revision])
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"The angular wedges of the number 30 [upper edge of the tablet] may have been made by a drill or a grinding machine. The same is true with the two big vertical wedges at the bottom of 8 in the number 38. Their form also may suggest some grinding work rather than being the marks of a wooden stylus in wet clay." (p. 367 [3rd revision])
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Jeffro
AnnOMaly:
Furuli hypothesizes that, [...]
But does Furuli explicitly state the reason for this alleged conspiracy? Usually when an artifact is considered erroneous, scholars simply note that in their translation. There seems no good motive for what is claimed by Furuli.
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