He seems to be still pumping out the articles
That's pretty scary, considering he has alzheimers disease!
Is the author a Witness: Yes
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OHappyDay
Furuli is like a lot of us: He really wants to believe that what he has spent his life with is true. So long as there is a shred of possibility that the Society may be right and secular historians wrong, he will hang in there. And when one is dealing with ancient history, there are few things that are absolutely certain, so he has wiggle room.
But I wonder if he would be trying to undermine secular dating for Jerusalme's fall if 607 BCE were not integral to the Society's dogma of proving its relevance based on that date and 1914? Probably not. Doctrinal pressure makes rational men do irrational things. It's happened with Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals -- and us. (Not to mention Jews, Muslims, and other "believers" as well.) It's the same tyranny of belief that makes creationists insist that the earth is only a few thousand years old despite all geological evidence to the contrary.
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joenobody
Furuli lives in Norway and I live in Australia so we are not the same person but do have similar academic qualifications and close in age and time as dedicated Witnesses. Furuli has hurled a bomb into the Jonsson camp with their foolish attemts to discredit 607 and to prove the unprovable date/s for the Fall of Jerusalem. Furuli provides a masterful exegesis of the seventy years based on his expertise as a Semitic scholar and demonstrates that the secular evidence is fallible.
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DanTheMan
These are my recommendations for books that we can add to our own personal theocratic libraries. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has provided much Bible study material for us that will save our lives and make us grow spiritually strong. The books listed here are extra reading material that we, as Jehovah's Witnesses, might enjoy since they pertain to our history, beliefs, and way of life
LOLOL at all the towerspeak, right down to the collective pronouns (we can, for us, we might)