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At last you recognize that Jonsson and his supporters have dug a hole for themselves in connection with the beginning of the seventy years and its duration. Critics of 607 cannot agree amongst themselves as to what calender year should be assigned to the seventy years, Is it 605 or 609 or other candidates? Jonsson will shortly publish a revised fourth edition of GTR and no doubt it will continue with similar errors and sloppy reasoning such as his already public remarks concerning Jeremiah 29: 10 on the use of the Hebrew proposition.
For the benefit of the other posers on this board I have already shown the evidence for 607 and it begins with the evidence for the Absolute Date of 539 followed by the Decree of Cyus in 537 folloewd by the seventy year exile which fixes the beginning of the exile in 607 at the time of Jerusalems destruction under Neb and Zedekiak in their respective regnal years. There is evidence in scripture and in the secular history for these three distinctive scriptural and historical events. The methodology for this calculation is simple and immediate and cannot be refuted by any scholar, critic or apostate fella. You try to demonstrate a simple, coherent and united presentation of all the chronological data for the confused 586 or 587. You ask Jonsson to present such a simple schema and he cannot do so but seeks to confuse the reader with deceit and gibberish.
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BA MA Studies in Religion