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Rabbinic Calendar off 166 years The
actual era of Jerusalem (David’s 7th year) was in 2761 AM (After
Man), which is 1004 BC (251 x 4). The rabbinic date for the temple is in 2927
AM or 832 BC. These dates differ by 166 years (2761 + 166 =
2927). This accounts for 2000 AD being the rabbinic year 5760
AM. Rabbinic
chronology reduces the time between the destruction of the two temples 166
years. Instead of the first temple being destroyed in 587 BC, rabbinic date
is 421 BC. After
reducing the Persian period 166 years, the rabbinic chronology inserts an
extra 166 years prior to the first temple, which includes choosing 479
instead of 251 years from the exodus to the era of Jerusalem. There
also appears to be an interrelationship between the 251-year pattern and the
jubilee cycle: (251 + 49 = 300) (502
+ 98 = 600) (251 + 43 = 294) (1656 + 864 = 2510). The Jubilee Year There
appears to be Sabbatical cycle based upon the year when Israel and Judah
split into two kingdoms in 931 BC. 98 years (two Jubilees) later, the
Assyrians captured Israel in 721 BC. 98 years later, King Josiah found Moses’
Book of the Law, which was likely hidden in the temple in case the Assyrians
conquered Jerusalem in 721 BC. So, in 623 everyone made a new covenant to
keep every word found in the book including the Sabbaticals. Josiah
died 14 years later, in 609, 70 years before the fall of Babylon in 539,
which ended with the release of captives held in Babylon, 70 years after King
Josiah was killed, 70 years after Jerusalem lost her independence. These 70
years are important because they are mentioned by six prophets, Isaiah,
Jeremiah, Daniel, Haggai and Zechariah and mentioned by Ezra, the high priest
(2 Chronicles 36:21 / Ezra 1:1). A
very important date during the first temple is found in Jeremiah 34, which
was likely in 588-587, just before Jerusalem fell (133 years after the
Assyrian captivity, 21 years after Josiah’s death, 49 years before the fall
of Babylon in 539-538). The
Jewish Encyclopedia preserves a legacy there was a Jubilee in 574 BC, 14
years after the fall of Jerusalem, 49 years after Josiah found the book of
the Law (See the above tab. “Code 490”).
Others note that 574 BC was 294 years (6 Jubilees) after a Sabbatical in King
Jehoshaphat’s third year, in 868 BC. If so, the 50th years are 49
years apart. The Trumpet of the Jubilee The
Jubilee begins after seven Sabbaticals (49 years), during the seventh year,
in the seventh month, on the tenth day (called the day of Atonement), not
after the seventh year. This begins in the fall in order to release servants
from tilling and planting the ground in the fall of the seventh year. From the fall of
Babylon, 539 BC to 1982 AD, there are 2520 years (360 Sabbaticals), but this
is not divisible by 49), and there are 2510 years (251 x 10) to 1972 AD. Evidence
that 50th years are 49 years apart One
Jewish legacy is that the Exodus was in the year 2450 (i.e., 49 x 50). So,
year 2450 is 50 jubilees (49-years each) or 49 jubilees (50-years each) after
Adam. It should have been 2510 years (251 x 10) if someone for some reason
had not subtracted 60 years between Abraham and his father (2510 – 2450 =
60). Moreover, 6 jubilees (294 years) plus one sabbatical equals 301
years. Six jubilees (50-years each) equal 300 years. The Samaritans added an extra 251 years before Abraham. Instead of
being born in 2008, he was born in 2259 after Adam, and the Israelites
crossed into their promised land in the 2794th year (after the 399th
sabbatical) since Adam. The Samaritan Book of Joshua says, the cloud, which
the Israelites followed 40 years in the wilderness, “was lifted up on the
first (day) of the first month, of the first year of Jubil (jubilee) even
from the beginning of the entering in of the children of Israel within the
boundaries of the assigned lands. And up to this time there had lapsed, of
the days of the world as established by the law, 2,794 years, and this
reckoning is correct, which the learned know by chronological computations
based upon the era of the flood.” Our next clue is that 588 years equal 294 times
2, that is, 12 jubilees. Jerusalem was burned in the year after a
sabbatical in 588 BC, and Babylon was conquered 49 years (7 sabbaticals)
later, in 539-538 BC. Alexander the Great conquered Palestine in 331 BC and
granted freedom during future sabbaticals. Herod conquered Jerusalem 294
years (6 jubilees) later, in 37 BC. From 539 BC to 37 BC, there are 502
years, that is, 251 times 2. From 1255 (the Exodus)
to 331 BC, when Alexander the Great conquered Jerusalem, there were 924
years, that is, 132 sabbaticals. From 1255 (the Exodus) to 37 BC, when Herod
conquered Jerusalem, there were 1218 years, that is, 174 sabbaticals. |
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