Is it this Rolf Furuli we are talking about here?
http://www.staggeron.org/universe.html#ancient_pepper_spray
Figures.
Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?
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AnnOMaly
LOL @ Kurt.
Are those two diary lines at all significant?
PP - There are 30-40 observations on the tablet which, taken together, cannot fit any other year than 568/7 BCE. The two problematic ones (Obverse, Lines 3 and 14) contain observations of the Moon relative to beta Virginis. Unfortuntately, these observations are a day out from what they should be. Either those observations were allocated to the wrong day, or they confused gamma Vir. with beta Vir. (interestingly, a similar error with the same stars occurred before on an earlier tablet). Those who want to undermine the credibility of VAT 4956 applying to 568/7 BCE home in on these two errors as if they alone overturn its entire dating.
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possiblepineapple
any errors on other tablets, or are they fine?
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possiblepineapple
I'm just asking incase these subjects ever come up
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AnnOMaly
Yes, various kinds of errors come up on other tablets too. They are not uncommon. On VAT 4956, for example, there are a range of them - words missing, repetition (dittography), ones that we would now call 'typos' ...
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possiblepineapple
So nothing major then
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AnnOMaly
It depends on the tablet.
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possiblepineapple
Well I mean as in not major enough to invalidate the tablet, as R.F would have me believe
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Phizzy
Yes, R.F uses the well worn JW technique of finding one small thing wrong with the evidence and rejecting the whole argument, whilst at the same time ignoring the mountain of evidence against their position.
He risks the possibility of being regarded by the Academic community as a total "arm-chair Scholar" in this matter, his expertise in the field he blunders in to is questionable, and his arguments and conclusions are suspect in the exrtreme.
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possiblepineapple
Aren't there more holes in the 539 date for babylons destruction than there are for 587?