How to debunk the 1914 calculus ONLY using JW publications?

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  VM44

  Please be advised that it was the said scholar that first initiated into the world of biblical scholarship a translation from German to English of VAT4956. The said scholar was pioneering in Bondi NSW at that time and in company with Leonard Tolhurst who was the Librarian at the SDA Seminary at Cooranbong, NSW who contributed half of the expense of the cost of the translation project which was done by a lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Sydney.

  Some years later another translation into English of the clay tablet VAT 4956 was done by Hermann Hunger but as stated that the said scholar was the 'first cab off the rank' as it were as he had obtained a photocopy of the original document from Tolhurst sent by mail and then hand delivered by the said scholar to the female lecturer's residence at the upper North Shore of Sydney and when completed the said scholar picked up the typewritten documents and mailed a copy back to Tolhurst.

  Leonard Tolhurst was the SDA Missionary who rescued a Witness family who was marooned on a deserted island off Fiji whilst either returning or going to a Convention. This experience was widely reported by the then very popular Readers' Digest which was available in many languages. Leonard Tolhurst is quite elderly and still alive residing at his home in Cooranbong, NSW which is the location of the primary educational institute for the SDA Church in Australasia.

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  Beth Sarim

  WT Theology has survived for centuries as its antecedents go back to the 15th-16th centuries or at the time of the Reformation. It survives because it is based solely on the Bible rejecting all of the rusty creeds of Christendom and is focussed on the fulfilment of Bible Prophecy/Eschatology and its attendant discipline-Bible Chronology which originated with the venerable James Ussher.

  What in fact is on life support are the many theologies of Christendom presented as Dogmatic or Systematic Theology etc which revolve around the false doctrine of the Trinity and its related Christology borrowed from Neo-Platonism and Platonism.

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  Jeffro

  Funny how all the evidence ‘must’ be wrong because of an interpretation that isn’t directly stated anywhere. 🤦‍♂️

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  The joke is on you for has not the said scholar told you over and over again the simple truism: Chronology is based on Interpretation and Methodology!!!

  Scholar instructing the ignorant and unlearned.

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  Vanderhoven 7

  Babylon fell -- 539 BCE accepted date for the Fall of Babylon

  Exile of the Jews - Babylonian or Jewish Exile widely accepted as a historical reality of a fixed and known duration. Not a myth

  Return of the Jews - 537 BCE widely accepted as a historical reality. Some scholars date to either 536 or 538 BCE

  Length of Exile - 70 years of Jeremiah as stated in the OT for a singular event in time and place

  Beginning of Exile - 607 BCE with the Fall of Jerusalem

  Exilic Period - 70 years constituted three elements as a period of Exile at Babylon-Desolation of Judah-Serviude at/for Babylon.

  QED

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  Beth Sarim

  The closer you get to 'truth', the angrier the misled become.
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  Beth Sarim

  The closer you get to 'truth', the angrier the misled become.

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  Are you misled?

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  Alethia

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  1. The astronomical diary VAT 4956 indicates that Bebuchadnezzer's 37th year was 568 BCE and the tablet Strm Kambys 400 indicates that Cambyses' 7th year was 523 BCE. This leaves only about 50 years for the Babylonian Exile of the Jews, whereas the Bible unambiguously says that Jerusalem was a desolate waste for 70 years. One or two of the sources must be wrong but which one(s)?

  2. The conclusion drawn on the basis of a study of hundreds of cuneiform tablets is that the New Babylonian Empire should be expanded by twenty years. This means that Nebuchadnezzer II started to reign in 625 BCE and not in 605 BCE as is almost universally believed.

  Will this suffice?

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  Not really. VAT4956 can be used to support 587 if you take into account planetary observations such as Saturn for instance.

  It seems your whole basis for 607 is your insistence that the bible mentions a 70 year exile?
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  Alethia

  Not really. VAT4956 can be used to support 587 if you take into account planetary observations such as Saturn for instance.

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  The latest and most recent scholarship on VAT 4956 by means of Rolf Furuli show that this tablet can be interpreted in support of 607 BCE by correcting Neb's 37th year from the traditional 568 BCE to 588 BCE.

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  It seems your whole basis for 607 is your insistence that the bible mentions a 70 year exile?

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  Correct. In addition, the fact that the 70 years is also descriptive of a period of servitude to Babylon and that the Land of Judah was desolate during the Exile of 70 years.

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  joey jojo

  Scholar , Im surprised that a man of your massive intellect, superior knowledge and boundless humility has the time to descend to the depths of us ordinary, simple humans and bestow your greatness upon us.
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  joey jojo

  Scholar , Im surprised that a man of your massive intellect, superior knowledge and boundless humility has the time to descend to the depths of us ordinary, simple humans and bestow your greatness upon us.

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  The said scholar just loves to help the little people.

  scholar JW