there seems to be some dating controversy
the Watchtower advertised that Jerusalem fell in 607 BC but I see other dates... is 607 a 'fudged date' or a valid one and is it was mistaken could the Watchtower recuse itself from its mistakes or would it be too difficult
notice "...o date an event with a 'BC' date, you must accept scientific chronology. The Witnesses say that they are using biblical chronology, but that only places events in their right order with the correct interval of years in between. Their article in The Watchtower, 15 August 1968, entitled The Book of Truthful, Historical Dates, showed that to establish the absolute date of 539, they must use secular historians. They quote twenty-five reliable authorities to fix 539 but at least twenty-two of these also conclude that Jerusalem fell in 586/587 BC, not 607 as claimed by the Society. .... f
not sure where the 607 date comes from, does anyone know?????
2007-03-19
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