Jeffro
Poor ‘scholar’ seems oblivious to the fact that asserting BM 21946 supports 607 BCE (without any possibility of 606 or 608) only reinforces the fact that there is no ambiguity regarding the correct identification of 587 when the erroneous 20-year gap in JW chronology is removed. 😂
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The military campaigns of Neb which are set out in BM 21946 do not support 587 BCE directly but simply provide a background for Neb's campaigns into Judah which are described in the Bible. Such synchronisms enable a Chronologist to construct a scheme of dates that reflects both historical narratives. Thus, by comparison, one can establish the fact of a 20-year difference between Bible Chronology and NB Chronology when fine-tuned results in 607 rather than 587 BCE.
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Of course, on its own BM 21946 doesn’t say anything about Jerusalem’s destruction at all. But when the biblical chronology is considered in light of the dating of the first siege identified in BM 21946 (not to mention all the other contemporary records of the neo-Babylonian period), 587 BCE is confirmed as the correct year.
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Correct! This is where you err in making invalid claims about Neb's first siege described in this tablet. For such a description supports 607 BCE rather than 587 BCE as a proper understanding of events described in the tablet itself proves.
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When dealing with someone who thinks ‘all the nations serving Babylon for 70 years’ really means ‘70 years of Jewish exile’, there is no point trying to engage that person logically. But other readers can see the JW nonsense for what it is.
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The fact that nations are brought into servitude to a foreign, invading power namely Babylon and conducts deportations of its citizenry to another land would mean Exile which is in fact what happened to the Judahites. Thus the term 'Jewish Exile' or 'Babylonian Exile' is a perfect descriptor of that event and period of history so we can properly label the 70 years as a period of servitude and Exile as described in Jer. 25:11.
scholar JW
