Djeggnog,
As a person apparently loyal to "the Slave", you shouldn't even be on this forum. How do you reconcile that to yourself? Don't you know your disobedience to their directive to not frequent such forums is making you disloyal?
For the record, Jerusalem's Destruction in 587/586 BC is fully in harmony with the Bible. In fact, this date can almost be derived from the Bible alone. I say almost because one needs an astronomical diary to pinpoint the year 539 BC. How can one accept the diary that pinpoints 539 BC and discount the rest, like VAT4956?
And what about the following?
* The astronomical diary B.M. 32312
* The Saturn tablet B.M. 76738+76813
* The lunar eclipse tablet LBAT 1417
* The lunar eclipse tablet LBAT 1419
* The lunar eclipse tablet LBAT 1420
* The lunar eclipse tablet LBAT 1421
* LBAT 1415
* Lunar eclipse Text no. 5 in Hunger, ADT V.
* Text no. 52 in Hunger, ADT V.
* Planetary tablet, SBTU IV 171
Wherein the tens of thousands of economic, administrative and legal documents from Babylonian times are the 20 extra years that would be needed to support a 607 BC date?
What about Adad-guppi stele? It is the obituary of Nabonidus's mother, dating the lengths of every Neo-Babylonian king.
What about the prosopographical evidence from that time?
How about the synchronisms with the Egyptian chronology?
All of this harmonizes with the Bible. All of this points to 587/586 BC as the time of Jerusalem's destruction. THE VERY STONES ARE CRYING OUT!
Jesus said: We must worship God with spirit and TRUTH. In line with that, here are some other questions. If 607BC is valid, scripturally and historically, why does the Society need to misrepresent quotes from scholars and historians? Why did their articles in the October/November Public edition list a reference that said the planetary observations on VAT4569 were unclear, when the reference said no such thing? Why did they say the month of Nissan began on May 2 during Nebuchadnazzar's 37 th year, when the month on Nissan NEVER began that late?
And more recently, why did they misrepresent Ephraim Stern in the June Awake?
