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Repetition of 251 Years Throughout
the book of Genesis
72 pages, 11 tables

 

Related Topics:

6,000-Year
Jubilee Calendar

Synopsis on Dr. Benedict Zuckerman
Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Breslau
, Poland

by Floyd R. Cox

 

As a revisionist, I have found that the rabbinical system omitted four jubilees, that is, 196 years prior to the first century. Their date for the temple was 832 BC instead of 968 BC, and they subtracted 60 years between Abraham and his father (136 + 60 = 196 years or 4 jubilees). Dr Zuckermann does not correct the missing 166 years of the Persian period (according to the Behistun Inscription) nor does he mention the 30 overlapping years of the kings of Israel.

 

Date of Creation

Accurate Lunar Solar Calendar

Power Point Sabbaticals-1

Sabbaticals-2

Sabbaticals-3

Sabbaticals-4

52-Weeks & 6 Jubilees Merge

SUNDIALS

AGE OF UNIVERSE

MYTHS

HEBREW ROOTS
MYOPIA

SAMARITAN CODE

DUALITY

KINGS

BOOKS

LETTERS

EXODUS

Y-DNA

SUMMARY
CODE 490

SUMMARY
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GENETICS

Littleberry Cox

The Corrected View

By restoring these 196 years, creation would become dated as 3957 BC, instead of the Jews’ date, 3761 BC. Moreover, the book of Jubilees says Adam died in his 931st year, in the 19th jubilee. This suggests that the 19-year cycle and the jubilee cycle both began with Adam, not with Joshua’s conquest of the Promised Land.

If the temple were founded in Solomon’s fourth year, in 968 BC, 479 years after the exodus (I Kings 6:1), then there were 439 years between Joshua’s conquest and the temple. Therefore, the temple was not founded in a sabbatical year because 439 is not divisible by 7. Solomon’s sixth year, 966 BC, would be a sabbatical, because it would be 441 years after the conquest, and 441 is divisible by 7 but also by 49. Therefore, 966 would have been the connected with the 9th jubilee (441/49 = 9) after Joshua’s conquest.

The temple burned at the end of a sabbatical, in 588/87 BC, 378 years, that is, 54 sabbaticals after 966, there was a jubilee 14 years after 588, in 574 BC, 392 years after 966. Therefore, 574 would be a jubilee year (966 – 574 = 392 or 8 jubilees).

Cyrus captured Babylon in 539 BC, 427 years after 966 BC. This equals 61 sabbaticals. So there was another jubilee in 525 BC, 14 years after Babylon fell.

The Uncorrected Rabbinical View

In contrast, in the rabbinical view, the temple founded was in 832 BC, and lasted 410 years, until the Babylonians destroyed it at the end of a sabbatical, in 422/21 BC. A jubilee was 14 years after Jerusalem fell (Ezek 40:1), in 408 BC, allegedly 850 years after Joshua’s conquest and 14 years of settling the land, in 1258 BC (1258 – 408 = 850 years).

And then Cyrus captured Babylon 49 years after 588 BC, in 539.

The rabbinical view is that the Israelite conquest was in 1272 BC (40 years after the exodus), but the jubilee cycle was allegedly 14 years later, in 1258.

Thus, Cyrus conquered Babylon allegedly in 373 BC, 49 years after Jerusalem fell, and a jubilee was allegedly in 359 BC, 14 years later, after Babylon fell. Therefore, the Bar Kochba revolt in 132 AD was 490 years after the alleged jubilee of 359 BC, 14 years after Cyrus’s commandment to allow the Jews to return from Babylon (Dan 9:25). 359 BC was used to prove there would be a jubilee in 132 AD during the Bar Kochba revolt (359 BC + 132 AD = 491 = 490 years).

(Note: In reality, there was a jubilee in 574 BC, 14 years after Jerusalem fell (Ezek 40:1) and one 14 years after Cyrus captured Babylon in 539 BC (359 + 166 = 525 + 49 = 574 BC). Shimeon Bar Kochba would not have been able to inspire three million to revolt against the Roman occupiers and get their land back without subtracting these 166 years.)

Bar Kochba had to portray himself as the Prince or Messiah spoken of in Daniel 9. Here again, the 490 years in Daniel 9 depends upon the commandment of Cyrus (Dan 9:25) to let the Jews return to Jerusalem after 373 BC (+ 166 = 539 BC). Find more on this at: http://code251.com/code166.com.

It becomes obvious that Josephus (after 70 AD) and Ptolemy knew the correct number of years from Cyrus in 539 BC to the Seluecid Era after 312 BC. It is obvious that Bar Kochba, a nephew of the priest, along with the entire rabbinical society removed 166 years between Cyrus and the Seleucid Era to give credibility to their revolt and messianic movement against the Romans in 132 AD.

 

TABLE 1. Rabbinical Jubilees after Adam    by Floyd R. Cox  3-2-2014

 

Sabbaticals
after Creation

Note: Blue = Sabbaticals
      Orange = Jubilees

 

 

BC

 

BC 3957

3957 BC: Corrected date for Adam, 196 years before 3761.

 

 

7 x 28

 

 

 

 

 

3761

3761/60: Rabbinical date for Adam.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 x 399

1312

1312 BC: Exodus 2448 years after Adam.

 

 

 

1272

1272 BC: Joshua’s conquest 40 years after the exodus.

 

 

 

1258

1258 BC: Jubilee cycle: 14 years after 1272.

 

 

 

1251

1251 BC: 2510 years after Adam = first sabbatical.

 

966

 

832

 832 BC: Temple founded. 3761 BC to 832 BC = 2929 years.

 

 

 

 

(3957 BC to 968 BC = 2869 years, a difference of 60 years).

 

 

 

 

(968 to 832 BC = difference of 136 years).

 

 

 

 

(832 BC = 427 yrs after 1259)

 

 

 

     457

457 BC: Jubilee, Josiah finds lost book of Moses (623-166=457)

 

 

 

 

457 BC = 801 years after 1258 (17 x 50 +1).

 

 

 

 

457 BC = 490 yrs before 34 AD.

 

49

 

422

422-21 BC: Jerusalem’s fall 410 yrs after 832 BC,

 

 

 

 

422-21 BC = 35 yrs after 457 BC.
422-21 BC = 490 years before 69-70 AD.

 

 

 

408

408 BC: Jubilee 14 yrs after 422, 490 years before 83 AD.

 

49

 

 

408 BC: = 17 jubilees (17 x 50) after 1258 BC

408 BC: = 50 yrs after 458.

 

7 x 55

373

374 BC: Cyrus captures Babylon 49 yrs after Jerusalem fell.

 

 

359

359 BC: Jubilee, 14 years after Babylon fell.

 

 

BC 37

37 BC: Sabbatical. Herod takes Jerusalem 7 x 55 after 422.

 

 

 

 

37 BC is 196 x 19 years after 3761 BC.

 

 

7 x 7

 

37 BC is 19 x 4 jubilees after 3761 BC.

 

 

 

BC 16

16 BC: Jubilee 9 x 49 after 457 BC.

 

 

 

AD 13

13 AD: Sabbatical

 

49 x 9

7 x 3

 

 

 

 

 

34

34 AD: Jubilee 10 x 49 jubilees, 490 years, after 457 BC.

 

 

7 x 4

 

 

 

 

 

62/63

62 AD: Sabbatical begins last 7 years of the second temple

 

 

7 x 1

 

(Dan 9:27).

 

 

 

69/70

69 AD: Sabbatical: Temple burned on Av 9, 490 years after

 

 

7 x 2

 

Av 9, 422 BC, at the end of a sabbatical.

 

 

 

83

83 AD: Jubilee 490 yrs after 408 BC

 

 

7 x 7

 

 

 

 

 

132

132 AD: Jubilee, Bar Kochba Revolt 490 yrs after 359 BC.

 

COUNTING FROM ADAM

The Rabbinical Way

NOTE: Dates of the sabbaticals are counted from Creation.

Creation = 3761/60 BC (rabbinical).

Creation = 3957/56 (corrected date) This countdown was used during the second temple and aligns with sabbaticals in 457, 422 and 37 BC.

How can we confirm these dates?

1. Herod captured Jerusalem in a sabbatical year, in 37 BC, in year 3724 of Creation (3761-37= 3724). This amounts to 19 times 4 jubilees (19 x 196 years = 3724). This is also equal to 196 19-year cycles. In contrast, rabbinical jubilees align with 16 BC & 34 AD.

2. The rabbinical date for Adam is 196 (4 jubilees) off and should be 3957 BC. They had removed 60 years between Abraham and his father, and their date for the temple, 832, is 136 years off.

3. Adam died 930 years after Tishri 1, that is, 931 years after Creation before Tishri 1. 931 years equal 19 jubilees. His death was 3920 years (80 x 40 or 8 x 490) before 37 BC.  Jubilees are counted from the week before Tishri 1. Therefore, 37 BC should be a jubilee year and 1189 AD is a known jubilee year. Therefore, 2022 AD is a jubilee year.

Note that sabbaticals and jubilees of the first temple were counted from 1259-58 BC, that is, 14 years after Joshua’s conquest.

The temple was founded in 832 BC 480 years after the exodus, 440 years after the conquest (I Kings 6:1). If jubilees began at the conquest and were 49 years apart, then one would be in the 441st year (49 x 9), in 831 BC (7 x 63), in Solomon’s 5th year.

For details on the sabbaticals (in Jeremiah 28:1 & 34, that is 602 and 588 BC (588 – 166= 422 in rabbinical view). For details on 588, see:
Seder Olam – Jewish Bible Quarterly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

475

7 x 49

 

 

 

 

 

475

475 AD: Jubilee, fall of Rome (7 jubilees after 132 AD)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 x 49

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

620

 

622

622 AD: 25 jubilees after 604 BC. Mohammed fled Mecca

 

 

 

 

622 AD = 10 jubilees after 132 AD.

 

1187

7 x 189

1189

1189 AD: Sabbatical, Richard de Lionhearted crowned

 

 

 

 

17 x 49 yrs before 2022 AD.

 

1943

 

1945

1945 AD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    49

1966

1966 AD: The “War of Atonement” was in 1967.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1992

 

1994

1994 AD: 50 x 49 years after 457 BC.

 

      

 

 

 

2013

49

2015

2015 AD: 49 yrs after 1966.

 

 

 

 

 

2020

 

2022

2022 AD: 42 x 49 after 37 BC

 

 

 

 

2022 AD = 122 x jubilees after 3957 BC (Adam)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2041

 

2043

2043 AD: 54 jubilees after 604 BC = (6,000 yrs. after 3957)

 

 

 

 

(29 x 49 after 622 AD) = (430 x 7 after 968 BC).

 

 

 

 

 

 

COUNTING FROM JOSHUA

NOTE: Dates of sabbaticals on the left begin when Joshua crossed the Jordan in 1407 BC, 40 years after the exodus in 1447 BC.

Moses was told, “when you come into the land which I will give you, then will you keep a sabbatical… Six years you shall sow… but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath rest…” (Lev 25:3-4).

This beginning was followed throughout the first temple.

How can we confirm these dates?

The temple was founded in the 439th year (I Kings 6:1), in 968 BC, but the sabbatical was in the 441st year, in 966 BC (7 x 63), Solomon’s 6th year, but the temple was founded in his 4th year.

Joshua’s first year and first harvest were in the spring, when the manna stopped. In the 49th year, in the seventh month, the jubilee began (Lev. 25:9). Years began in the spring. For example, the king of Jerusalem burned Jeremiah’s book in the ninth month while in his winter house (Jer. 36:22).

Years bean in the spring, which is evident from the months, September, October, November and December. These names mean 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th.

For details on the sabbaticals in 602 and 588 BC  (in Jeremiah 28:1 & 34):  Seder Olam – Jewish Bible Quarterly

Dates on the right are during the second temple. These sabbaticals are counted from the date of Creation, 3761/3761 BC, which aligns with sabbaticals in 604, 569, 520, 457 and 37 BC.

These dates are two years off when compared with those of the first temple. For example, the first and second temple fell on the same day of the same month, at the end of sabbatical years. Therefore, the number of years between the two events should be evenly divisible by 7. But are they? No. The first was on Av 9, 587 BC, and the second was on AV 9, 70 AD. These dates are 656 years apart. They should be 658.

Therefore, the sabbaticals after 70 AD are two years before those of the first temple.

 

 

 

 

 
TABLE 2. Jubilees after Joshua    by Floyd R. Cox

Sabbaticals
after Joshua

Sabbaticals
after Creation



 

1407

 

 

1407 BC: Joshua crosses the Jordan in his conquest.

 

 

   7 x 63

 

 

 

BC 966

 

BC 968

966 BC: Jubilee 441 years (49 X 9) after the conquest.

 

 

7 x 5

 

It was two years after temple was founded after 439 years.

 

931

 

 

931 BC: Sabbatical. House of Israel becomes separate from Judah.

 

 

 

 

 

 

868

 

 

868 BC: Sabbatical in the third year of Jehoshaphat.

 

 

7 x 30

 

 

 

721

 

 

721 BC: Five Jubilees after 966. Assyrian captivity of Israel.

 

 

7 x 14

 

 

 

623

 

 

623 BC: Seven jubilees after 966. Josiah’s reform after he

 

609

 

 

finds the lost book of Moses.

 

602

 

 

602 BC: Sabbatical, four years before Zedekiah (Jer 28:1).

 

 

7 x 2

 

Two more years and another sabbatical begins (Jer 28:3).

 

 

 

 

 

 

588

 

 

588 BC: Temple burned AV 9, 587 “at end of a sabbatical”

 

 

7 x 2

 

Sabbatical allegedly began in fall of 588 BC (Jer 34: 14).

 

574

 

 

574 BC: 8 jubilees after 966, 14 years after Jerusalem fell (Ezek 40:1).

 

 

7 x 5

 

 

 

539

   49

 

539 BC: Sabbatical, Babylon fell 49 years after Jerusalem fell.

 

 

7 x 2

 

 

 

525

 

 

525: 9 jubilees after 966, 14 yrs after fall of Babylon.

 

 

 

520

520 BC: Second temple founded 64 x 7 yrs. after 968, that

 

Rabbinic date:

 

 

is, 12 x 7 after 604 BC (the era of Nebuchednezzer).

 

518-166=

      14

 

 

 

352 BC

7 x 2

 

 

 

 

 

506

506 BC: 2 jubilees after 604 BC, 14 years after 520 (temple)

 

 

 

 

506 BC is 455 yrs (65 x 7) after 966 (604-506=2 jubilees).

 

 

   49

 

 

 

 

7 x 7

 

 

 

 

 

457

457 BC: 3rd jubilee after 604 = 73rd sabbatical after 968 BC.

 

 

 

422

422-21 BC: 78 x 7 after 968 BC, 490 years before 69-70 AD =

 

 

 

163

163 BC: 9 jubilees after 604 (sabbatical in I Maccabees).

 

 

7 x 60

 

 

 

BC 33

 

37

37 BC: 18 jubilees after Herod captures Jerusalem (sabbatical)

 

  49

 

 

13 AD: Sabbatical

 

AD 13

7 x 10

 

 

 

32

 

34

34 AD: 13 jubilees after 604, 490 years after 457 BC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

60

 

62

62 AD: 21 jubilees after 968 BC, 95 sabbaticals after 604.

 

 

 

 

 

 

67

      98

69

69 AD: Sabbatical: Temple burned on Av 9, 656 years after

 

 

 

 

Av 9, 588-587 BC, at the end of a sabbatical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

130

 

132

132 AD: 15 jubilees after 604 BC, Bar Kochba Revolt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

475

49 x 10

 

475 AD: Jubilee, fall of Rome (7 jubilees after 132 AD)

 

 

 

 

 

 

620

 

622

622 AD: 25 jubilees after 604 BC. Mohammed fled Mecca

 

 

 

 

(10 jubilees after 132 AD)

 

1187

7 x 189

1189

1189 AD: 44 jubilees from 968 BC. Richard de Lionhearted

 

 

 

 

crowned 17 jubilees before 2022 AD.

 

1943

 

1945

1945 AD: 52 jubilees after 604 BC, 416 sabbaticals after 968.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    49

1966

1966 AD: The “War of Atonement” was in 1967.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1992

 

1994

1994 AD: 53 jubilees after 604 BC. Split in Churches of God

 

 

      

 

50 x 49 years after 457 BC.

 

2013

49

2015

2015 AD: 49 yrs after 1966.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020

 

2022

2022 AD: 61 jubilees after 968 BC (427 x 7) = (42 x 49 after

 

 

 

 

37 BC) = (122 x jubilees after Adam) = (375 x 7 after 604).

 

 

 

 

 

 

2041

 

2043

2043 AD: 54 jubilees after 604 BC = (6,000 yrs. after 3957) =

 

 

 

 

(29 x 49 after 622 AD) = (430 x 7 after 968 BC).

 

 

­­­­TABLE 3. Rabbinical Time Chart

 

 

 

 

410 yrs

70 yrs

420 yrs

 

 

 

 

980 yrs = 20 Jubilees

 

490 yrs = 10 Jubilees

 

 

1948 yrs

500 yrs

       480 yrs

480 yrs

 

 

0 A.M
3760 BC

1948 A.M.
1812 BC

2448 A.M.
1312 BC

2928 A.M.
832 BC

3338 A.M.
422/421 BC

3408 A.M.
352\351 BC

3828 A.M.
68+1 = 69/70 AD

Creation

Birth of
Abraham

Exodus
Law Given

1st Temple
Founded

1st Temple
Burned (421 BC)

2nd Temple Founded

2nd Temple Burned (70 AD)

 

2488 A.M.
1272 BC

 

 

483 yrs.
before 132 AD

490 yrs. after
1st temple burned

 

Entry Into Canaan

 

 

(Bar Kochba)
Beginning of

 

 

 

 

last 7 years

 

 

850 yrs = 17 Jubilees

 

132-139 AD

 

There is sufficient proof that the priests and rabbis needed to show that Simon Bar Kochba was the Messiah that would come in a Jubilee year, 490 years after 359 BC (490 – 359 = 132 AD). There was allegedly a Jubilee in 359 BC, 14 years after Cyrus’ commandment in 373 BC (according to Seder Olam) for the Jews to return from Babylon to Jerusalem (373 BC – 14 = 359 BC) and a Jubilee in 407 BC, 14 years after the first temple burned in 421 BC (according to Ezek 40:1).

Furthermore, if the first temple were burned in 422/421 BC, this would be 490 years (70 weeks of years) before the temple was burned again in 69/70 AD as a fulfillment of Daniel 9:24.

Allegedly, the first temple was burned in 422-21 BC 17 Jubilees (50 years each = 850 years) after Joshua’s conquest, after crossing the Jordan river.

                                                                    Details from the above Table:

50-year Jubilees:
2502 A.M / 1258 BC 14 years after the entry into Canaan began the Sabbatical/Jubilee cycles (17 Jubilees before 408 BC).
2802 A.M. / 958 BC Jephthah was Judge 300 yrs after the entry into Canaan (6 Jubilees after 1258 BC).

49-year Jubilees:
3401 A.M. / 457 BC Josiah conquers Babylon & releases the Jews to return to Jerusalem (490 years before 132 AD).
2415 A.M. / 345 BC 14 years after Cyrus conquered Babylon is a Sabbatical/Jubilee.
3842 A.M. / 83 AD 14 years after the 2nd temple finds the lost book of Moses. A new covenant made to keep the Sabbaticals & Jubilees.
3352 A.M. / 408 BC 14 years after the 1st temple burned after 422 BC (421) was a Sabbatical/Jubilee (Ezek. 40:1).
2401 A.M. / 359 BC Cyrus burned after 69 AD (70) was a Sabbatical/Jubilee.
3891 A.M. / 132 A.D. was a Sabbatical/Jubilee.
5781 A.M. / 2022 AD will be a Sabbatical/Jubilee

34 years
180 years
103 years
103 years
420 years

Persians (during 2nd temple)
Greeks                   
Chashmonaim       
House of Herod     
= duration of the 2nd temple





Priests and Rabbis Knew the true History

There is sufficient proof from Manetho, Josephus, Maimonides and the Behistun Inscription that the rabbis and priests likely knew the true history of the second temple. It was burned in 69/70 AD, the 380th year of Seleucid (after 311 BC), and there were 656 years (instead of 490 claimed by the priests and rabbis) between the burnings of the first and second temples (587 BC & 70 AD), for a difference of 166 years (656 – 490 = 166). There is also evidence that the priests and rabbis removed 62 years between Adam and the exodus from Egypt (2510 – 2448 = 62). These reductions total 228 years (166 + 62 = 228).

To enable the priests and rabbis to inspire three million Jews to rebel against the Roman occupiers, they had to show that 132 AD was a Sabbatical, and the trumpet of the Jubilee would be sounded in the seventh month, on the day of Atonement, in the next fall. They could not revise the time of Darius who decreed that the temple should be founded and decreed that Ezra and Nehemiah could return to oversee the temple and completion of Jerusalem’s walls. They could not revise any of the time after the Era of Seleucid, after 311 BC (in the Babylonian Talmud and accounting system).

Next, they simply counted the years of the reigns of the kings of Israel between Solomon and the Assyrian Captivity of Israel and did not omit 30 overlapping years during their time. This is why the rabbinical date for Solomon’s temple was set at 832 BC, 136 years after 968 BC, the true date for the temple. Next they omitted 60 years between Abraham and his father, which make a total of 196 years omitted (136 + 60 = 196 years = 4 jubilees).

The Original View that was Revised

Naturally, the question arises: If the rabbinical view was revised, what was the original view that was amended?

This portion of the study addresses two mysterious patterns used prior to the first temple, which need more study to see if they could possibly be superficial and unreliable.

The first pattern involves evidence there were 2510 years (251 x 10) from Adam to the exodus from Egypt and 2761 years (251 x 11) from Adam to the temple.

The second pattern has 2989 years (427 x 7) from Adam to the temple. If 52 years were added to the 1656 years between Adam to the flood, it would be divisible by 427 (427 x 4 = 1708). If 52 years were subtracted between exodus and the temple, there would be 427 years. In essence, this would make 427 times seven from Adam to the Temple. Without adding or subtracting these 52 years, there would still be 427 times seven years from Adam to the temple.

These two views differ 228 years. 2989 A.M. (= 427 x 7) to the temple minus 2761 A.M. (= 251 x 11) to the temple = difference of 228 years (2989 – 2761 = 228).

This implies that their original view that was amended had 251 years from the exodus to the temple instead of 479 years (479 – 251 = 228). They knew that I Kings 6:1 supported having 480 years. Recent chronographers place the exodus in about 1255 BC (251 x 5), about 251 before David conquered Jerusalem in 1004 BC (251 x 4).

Original View had a 251-year Pattern prior to the First Temple
(251 x 11 =  2761 A.M.)

1757 A.M. (= 251 x 7) Fall of Babel, nations divided
2008 A.M. (= 251 x 8) Abraham born (2008 A.M. – 1948 A.M. = 60 years deducted between Abraham and his father).
2259 A.M. (= 251 x 9) Joseph born
2510 A.M. (= 251 x 10) Exodus from Egypt (2510 A.M. – 2448 A.M. = 62 years deducted between Adam and the exodus.
2761 A.M. (= 251 x 11) First temple founded (2927 A.M. – 2761 A.M = 166 years deducted between Adam and the temple).

1312 BC – 1255 BC = 57 years (17 extra years for 17 Jubilees plus 40 more years back to the exodus).
1312 BC – 1448 BC = 136 years (166 missing years minus 30 overlapping years of the kings of Israel) back to the exodus.
  968 BC–832 BC = 136 years deducted from the date of the founding of the 1st temple (166 missing years–30 overlapping).

Conclusion

Three million Jews that followed Bar Kochba discovered their priests and rabbis could not predict the coming of the true Messiah by calculating the years of the Sabbaticals and Jubilees. Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

Details show how they removed 166 years by subtracting 60 years between Abraham and his father and by adding 228 years between the exodus and the temple (479 – 251 = 228). This makes a total of 166 years removed (228 – 60 = 166). This compensates for subtracting 166 years during the second temple, and the date when Adam was allegedly created on the sixth day after the end of year 3761 BC should remain unchanged. In one view, the temple was likely 2989 years (427 x 7) after Adam. In another view, it would likely be 2761 years (251 x 11). The difference again is 228 years (2989 – 2761 = 228).

The year of Creation in 3761 BC, prior to Adam has been used to calculate the 19-year cycles and can be used to calculate the Sabbaticals and Jubilees. The Sabbatical of 37 BC, when Herod conquered Jerusalem, was 3724 years (196 x 19 years or four Jubilees times 19) after 3761 BC.

The priests and rabbis had removed 196 years, 60 years between Abraham and his father, and they removed 136 years by dating the temple as 832 BC instead of 968 BC (136 + 60 = 196). This information can be used to restore these Jubilees (196 years) prior to 3761 BC. The new date back to Creation would be 3957 BC. This means that, from the temple in 968 BC to Creation in 3957 BC, there are 2989 years.

The rabbinic date of Creation in 3761 BC must be moved backward in time 196 (49 x 4) years and revised to 3957 BC.

Reservations

However, the 251-year and 427-year patterns create the impression that they are estimates (guesstimates) of time prior to the temple and are most likely to be superficial, Jewish myth and very unreliable.

With the above evidence that priests and rabbis can change numbers to fit into 480-year and 490-year patterns who can trust them regarding the 480 years of the tabernacle to the first temple (I Kings 6:1), the 480 years of the first temple to the second temple, and the 480 years of the second temple down to Bar Kochba? How about the date of Abraham’s calling before his father died (Acts 7:2-4)? Was this 430 years before the exodus, or do we count from when he was 75? How about the 450 years of Judges in Acts 13:20? This conflicts with the 480 years from the exodus to the temple (I Kings 6:1).

Seems that the Jews might have created such patterns so show that “Jehovah is Great!”. Much more research is needed.

 

 

 

 

TABLE 4.  Two Core Traditions: 480/499 Years of the first Temple

 

 

KINGS OF ISRAEL & JUDAH
(Rabbinic Tradition)

KINGS OF JUDAH ONLY
(King James Tradition)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

King’s 1st Yr.

 

King’s 1st Yr.

 

 

 

(833)

Solomon’s 4th yr.

36

 

1016

Solomon’s yrs left

36

yrs.

 

 

797

Jeroboam

22

 

980

Jeroboam

17

 

 

 

775

Nadab

2

 

963

Abijah

3

 

 

 

773

Baasha

24

 

960

Asa

41

 

 

 

749

Elah

2

 

919

Jehoshaphat

25

 

 

 

747

Zimri

 

7 days

 

 

 

 

 

 

747

Omri

12

 

894

Jehoram (Joram)

8

 

 

 

735

Ahab

22

 

886

Ahaziah

1

 

 

 

713

Ahaziah

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

711

Joram (Jehoram)

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

699

Jehu

28

 

885

Athaliah

6

 

 

 

671

Jehoahaz

17

 

879

Joash

40

 

 

 

654

Joash

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

638

Jeroboam II

41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

597

Zechariah

 

6 mo.

839

Amaziah

29

 

 

 

596  6/12

Shallum

 

1 mo.

810

Uzziah

52

 

 

 

596  7/12

Menahem

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

586  7/12

Pekahiah

2

 

758

Jotham

16

(20) II K. 15:30

 

584  7/12

Pekah

20

 

742

Ahaz

16

 

 

 

564  7/12

Hoshea

9

 

726

Hezekiah

6

 

 

 

555  7/12

Hoshea’s 9th year (Assyrian captivity)

720

Hezekiah’s 6th year (Assyrian captivity)

 

 

 

 

277

+7 mo.

 

 

296

yrs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KINGS OF JUDAH

 

 

KINGS OF JUDAH

 

 

 

 

 

After Hezekiah’s 6th year

23

 

 

After Hezekiah’s 6th year

23

 

 

 

532  7/12

Manasseh

55

 

697

Manasseh

55

 

 

 

477  7/12

Amon

2

 

642

Amon

2

 

 

 

475  7/12

Josiah

31

 

640

Josiah

31

 

 

 

444  7/12

Jehoahaz

 

3 mo.

609

Jehoahaz

 

3 mo.

 

 

444  10/12

Jehoiakim

11

 

609  3/12

Jehoiakim

11

 

 

 

433  10/12

Jehoiachin

 

3 mo.

598  3/12

Jehoiachin

 

3 mo.

 

 

432  1/12

Zedekiah

11

 

598  6/12

Zedekiah

11

 

 

 

421

(Temple destroyed)

 

+ 166 =

587  6/12

(Temple destroyed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

133

 

 

 

133

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Era of Jerusalem

410

+13 mo.

Total Era of Jerusalem

429

+ 6 mo.

 

 

     Period without 1st temple

70

 

    Period without 1st temple

70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total from 1st to 2nd temples

480

+13 mo.

Total from 1st to 2nd temples

499

+ 6 mo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: TABLE 3 illustrates two traditions. In the rabbinic dates on the left, the Assyrian captivity of Israel is 555 BC while Ussher’s date is 720 for a difference of 165 years. After the temple is destroyed, the dates differ 166 years (587 – 421 = 166) (517 - 351 = 166).

The missing 166 years is corrected prior to the Era of Jerusalem. Rabbinic tradition on the left allows 2927 years from Adam to David’s 7th year, whereas the 251-year pattern calls for 2761 years (251 x 11) to the Era of Jerusalem. The rabbinic date of Creation is 3761 BC.

 

 

 

 

TABLE 5. 17 Jubilees from Joshua’s Conquest to 574 BC

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua’s
Conquest
1272
BC.
 

 

 

 

Fall of Jerusalem
422-21 BC
Sabbatical
Jubilee
408 BC

 

 

 

 

 

Sabbaticals begin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14 yrs

Rabbis’ view: 14 yrs + 17 jubilees = 14 + 850 yrs =
864 yrs

14 yrs

 

 
  864 yrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- 833 yrs

 

 

 

Time is actually 17 jubilees = ( from 1407 BC to 574 BC) =

14 yrs

 

    31 yrs

 

 

 

Sabbaticals begin                833 yrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua’s
Conquest
1407
BC.
 

 

Jerusalem
588-87 BC
Sabbatical
Jubilee
574 BC

 

 

 

Rabbinic tradition says:

  1. The temple was founded in 832 BC, 480 years after the exodus, from 1312 to 832 BC.
  2. The temple lasted 410 years, from 832 to 422 BC.
  3. The temple burned in 422 BC, 850 years (17 jubilees) after Joshua’s conquest in 1272 BC.
  4. The jubilee was 14 years after Jerusalem burned, 17 jubilees + 14 years after Joshua’s conquest.

The reality is:

  1. The temple was founded 136 years earlier, in 968 BC.
  2. The temple lasted 399 years, from 968 to 588/87 BC.
  3. The temple burned 819 years (107 sabbaticals) after Joshua’s conquest.
  4. The temple burned 819 years (107 sabbaticals) after Joshua’s conquest.
  5. The jubilee was 14 years after Jerusalem fell, 833 years after Joshua’s conquest.
  6. A jubilee was in 966 BC, two years after 968 BC, 441 years after Joshua’s conquest.

 

 

 

 

TABLE 6. The 251-year and 427—year Patterns in the Rabbinical View

 

 

Adam 3759 BC
Should be 3761 BC
(Birth of Abraham was 502 years before the exodus, not 500)

 


Fall of Babel
1757 yrs

1811 BC
Birth of Abraham
1948 yrs


Birth of Joseph
2199 yrs

1311 BC
Exodus

2448 yrs

1252 BC
First
Sabbatical
2510 yrs

 

825 BC
Temple
Finished
2937 yrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

251

251

251

251

251

251

251

251
 -60
191

251

(500

249

yrs)

2510
-62
2448

2448
+62
2510

1757
       -49
1708

Temple was finished 479 yrs before the 2nd temple was finished in 346

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

427 yrs

427 yrs

427

427 yrs

49

753 yrs
(=251 x 3)

427 yrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE 5. 17 Jubilees from Joshua’s Conquest to 574 BC

 



 

 

 

753 yrs
(=251 x 3)

 

 

753 yrs
(=251 x 3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following is a synopsis of a treatise on rabbinical chronology of sabbaticals and jubilees according to Dr. Benedict Zuchermann and the mindset prior to 1843, when Henry Rawinson deciphered the Behistun Inscription of ancient Persia. Prior to Rawlinson, the rabbinical schools taught that the Babylonians burned the first temple in 421 BC, on Av 9, 490 years before the Romans burned the second temple in 69-70 AD, on Av 9. (There was a mistake of one year, the missing “year 0”; so they recorded the date as 68-69 AD. These dates are off 166 years. NASA lunar charts prove that the 9th of Av had to be in 587 BC, not 421 BC. Nevertheless, the old paradigm still lingers on during our present era. The treatise reveals that the temple was in 832 BC, instead of 968 BC, that the exodus was in 1312 BC, instead of 1447 BC., that creation was in 3761 BC, instead of 3957 BC. They had removed 196 years, or six jubilees.

A Treatise

on the
SABBATICAL AND THE

JUBILEE,

 

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY

AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE TIME ANTERIOR AND

SUBSEQUENT TO THE CAPTIVITY

ACCOMPANIED BY A TABLE OF SABBATICAL YEARS

Translated from the German of

Dr. B. ZUCKERMANN

PROFESSOR AT THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, BRESLAU

 

BY THE

REV. A. LOWY

 

HERMON PRESS

NEW YORK

 

(Transcribed by Floyd R. Cox)

 

p. 45

“Josephus relates, that the siege of Jerusalem by Herod and the Roman legate Sosius occurred during a Sabbatical year…”

p. 46

“The siege lasted fifty-five days. The conquest of Jerusalem happened in the month of Sivan (June), under the consulate od Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Caninius Gallus, in the 185th Olympiad… This shows that B.C. 37, 275 of the Seleucidan era, was a Sabbatical year… On reckoning from that year retrogressively, 14 Sabbatical cycals = 98 years, the Seleucidan year 177 is obtained; in which, of course, a corresponding Sabbatical year must have occurred. This conclusion is, in fact, historically confirmed. In the Seleucidan year 177, in the month of Shebat (February), the Hasmonean prince and high-priest Simon was murdered by his son-in-law Ptolemy. Immediately thereafter Joh. Hyrcan, the son of Simon, besieged the murderer of his father in the fortress of Dagon, or Dorcus, but was obliged to depart without obtaining his object, because the time of siege fell in a Sabbatical year…

p. 47

“Hence we learn that the year 177 = 135 B.C., was a Sabbatical year. If a further deduction be made of four Sabbatical cycles, or 28 years, a Sabbath year must fall on 149 Sel. Era, or B.C. 163. Now we find, as a remarkable coincidence, in the Book of Maccabees and in Josephus, who in his Antiq. xii. 9, 6, reiterates the fact, that in the year 150 (Sel. Era) was a Sabbatical year… This date of 150 (Sel. Era) as a Sabbatical year has given much trouble to chronologists. An attempt was made to overcome the difficulty by the assumption that the author of the first book of Maccabees dates the commencement of the year from the spring-time (Nisan)…”

p. 48

“…the years 177 and 275 of the Seleucidan era were Sabbatical years… Maimonides makes reference; namely, that the Seleucidan year 1486 was a Sabbatical… for it must here be borne in mind, that from 275 to 1486 of the Sel. Era, including the last-mentioned date, occur 173 Sabbatical cycles.

“Also the tradition preserved in Seder Olam, that the fall of the second temple coincided with the first year of a Sabbatical cycle… For the destruction of the second temple happened in the summer A.D. 70, that is 381 of the Seleucidan era. Fifteen Sabbatical cycles thus elapsed from 275 to 381 of the Sel. Era, exclusive of the year 381: or, in other words, that year witnessing the overthrow, was the first of a Sabbatical cycle.

p. 49

“Hence it follows, that the method for determining a Sabbatical year, as evolved from the discussions of ancient Rabbinical authorities, holds its ground legitimately.

“For, according to that process, as we have already ascertained, the year 5614 A.M. (After Man) Judaici = A.D. 1854 = 2165 Sel. Era, was a Sabbatical year. Now this is removed from the Sabbatical year 275, Sel. Era, by 1890 years, or 270 Sabbatical cycles. The Jews of Palestine, keeping their Sabbatical years on the basis of this calculation, need, therefore, entertain no scruples of conscience lest they substitute a wrong year.”

p. 50

“…On applying it (the Seleucidan era) to any given year – for example, to the year 275 of the Sel, era – the division in the proposed calculation leaves no remainder, which shows that 275 of the Sel. Era is a Sabbatical year.

“… R. Tam has further elucidated it by some assumed facts. He relates that the Seleucidan era began 380 before the destruction of the second temple (70 A.D.).”

 

NOTE: Zuckermann next reveals that the first temple was burned in 421 BC and was replaced by the second temple in 352 BC, which continued to exist 420 years, until 70 AD. This version leaves out 166 years from the actual time. The first temple was burned in 587 B.C.

 

“On the assumption, already noticed, that the temple stood 420 years, the Seleucidan era began with the forty-first year after the erection of the second temple. The reckoning of Sabbatical years having been initiated when the building of this temple began, a Sabbatical series terminated forty-two years thereafter; thast is, in the second year of the Seleucidan era. On this account two years must be deducted from the Seleucidan era, or, what has just the same effect, five years must be added thereto in order to render the rule applicable to the Seleucidan years.”

p. 51

Others following the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D.… “are then obliged to strike out both the allusion to the Seleucidan era… as also the deduction of the number 2, or the addition of number 5. As there is a notorious discrepancy of a year, occasioned by the doubt wether the year 420 or 421 after the commencement of the building of the temple was the first year of a Sabbatical cycle, those in favor of the year 420 are obliged to supplement the words, “let one year be added”… because the era excidii begins with the year 421.”

p. 52

Zuckermann next covers the dates A.M. since Adam stating that the second temple was burned in 3829 A.M., which is evenly divisible by 7 (3829 yrs. - 3761 B.C. = 68-69 A.D. plus year 0 = 69-70 AD). Others prefer to use 3830 A.M., which would be year one of the next Sabbatical cycle.

p. 53

“On summing up the subject of the present inquiry, the following appear as ascertained Sabbatical years: -

 

1. The Seleucidan year

2.                   

3.                   

4.                   

177 =

275 =

380 =

1486 =

B.C.

B.C.

A.D.

A.D.

135

37

69

1175

 

 

p. 54

Next Zuckermann dates the 32nd year of Artaxerxes as 433 B.C., when Nehemiah returned to Persia possibly until Artaxerxes’ death in 425 B.C. “The death of Artaxerxes is stated to have occurred B.C. 425. The Synod might therefore be referable to B.C. 422. It is conceivable that, in conformity with the Synodical resolution, the Sabbatical cycles were reckoned from that date; that is to say, were resumed. On reckoning back from the Sabbatical year B.C. 136-135, the year B.C. 422-421 was the first of a Sabbatical cycle. The year 422-421 B.C., may possibly be regarded as commencing the new era of the Sabbatical cycle.”

 

p. 55

As for jubilee years, he quotes a source that prefers 1189 A.D. = 4949 A.M. would be a Sabbatical year, and 1190 A.D. = 4950 A.M. and would be a jubilee year. He says this is confirmed by Matthew Paris in his History Major, London, 1686, p. 128, that a persecution of the Jews took place on the day of the coronation of Richard Cour de Lionhearted, at the beginning of a year of Jubilee. He says this was on the 19th of Elul, September 3, eleven days before the Jewish new year, Tishri 1, 21 days before Atonement, in the fall.

1189 A.D. to 2022 AD = 833 yrs. = 119 x 7 = 49 x 7     

 

p. 56

“Parchi assumes the fifteenth year after the arrival of the Israelites in Canaan as the commencement of the era of Jubilees, and he gives period of Jubilee a duration of fifty years.” If the exodus were in 1312 BC, then the arrival would be in 1272 BC, that is, 850 years before 422 BC, that is, 17 jubilees if they were 50 years each.

 

p. 59

The treatise ends with dating year 6,000 A.M. = 2239-2240 A.D. = 2551 Seleucidan era. This would date year one of Creation as 3761-60 B.C.

 

 

Final Note: Dr. Zuckermann does not correct the missing 166 years of the Persian period (according to the Behistun Inscription) nor does he mention the 30 overlapping years of the kings of Israel. As a revisionist, I have found that the rabbinical system omitted four jubilees, that is, 196 years. Their date for the temple was 832 B.C. instead of 968 B.C., and they subtracted 60 years between Abraham and his father. My revision would confirm the above date, 2022 A.D. as a jubilee year to be announced in the fall, on the day of Atonement.

 

 

TABLE 7.  A Concise Comparison

 

Original Pattern

 

Rabbinic Figures

 

 

Age at son’s birth

 

Adam 

130

 

130

3761 BC

 

Seth

105

 

105

 

 

Enos

90

 

90

 

 

Cainan

70

 

70

 

 

Mahalaleel

65

 

65

 

 

 

 

1757 yrs.

 

1757 yrs.

 

Jared

162

 

162

 

 

Enoch

65

 

65

 

 

Methuselah

187

 

187

 

 

Lamech

182

 

182

 

 

Noah

502

 

502

 

 

Born 600 yrs. before the flood of yr 1656

 

 

 

 

Shem (born 98 yrs. before the flood)

100

 

100

 

 

Arphaxad (born 2 yrs. after the flood)

35

 

35

 

 

Salah

30

 

30

 

 

Eber

34

 

34

 

 

Peleg

30

 

30

 

 

Reu

32

 

32

 

 

Serug

30

 

30

 

 

 

 

  251 yrs.

 

191 yrs.

 

Nahor

29

 

29

 

 

Terah

130

 

70

 

 

Abraham                         1757 BC

2008

-60 =

1948

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham

100

 

100

 

 

Isaac

2108

-60 =

2048

 

 

Jacob

 

 

 

 

 

Judah

 

 

 

 

 

Pherez

 

502 yrs.

 

500 yrs

 

 

Hezron

 

 

 

 

 

Ram

 

 

 

 

 

Amminidab

 

 

 

 

 

Nashon (Prince at the exodus)

2510

-62 =

2448

1313 BC[1]

 

 

TABLE 8. 70 Jubilees From Creation to Alexander

 



 

Terah to Abram
60 yrs removed

 

Exodus to Temple
479-251=228 added

 

Before Alexander
166 yrs removed

Original View

 

 

 

251

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revised View

 

-60

 

+228 = 479

 

-166

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-60 + -166 = -228 yrs removed      479- 251= 228 added

 

 

Creation in 3761 BC

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander in
331 BC

 

 

NOTES ON TABLE 7.

There are 70 jubilees (3430 years) from the rabbinical date of Creation (in 3761 BC) to 331 BC, when Alexander allowed the Jews’ sabbaticals without paying tribute.

331 BC = 70 jubilees after Creation in 3761 BC (490 x 7).

331 BC = 51 jubilees (2499 years) after the death of Adam.

331 BC = 74 jubilees after Creation in 3957 BC.

331 BC = 55 jubilees (2695 years) after the death of Adam.

331 BC = 4 jubilees before Herod conquered Jerusalem in 37 BC.

Priests and rabbis revised chronology by subtracting 60 years between Abraham and his father, Terah, and by subtracting 166 years of the Persian period (539-331 BC). These two interventions subtracted a total of 228 years (60 + 166 = 228).

Without subtracting 60 years between Abraham and his father and if there were 479 years from the exodus to the temple, there would be 427 times 7 from Adam to the temple (2989 years).

Without subtracting 60 years between Abraham and his father and if there were 251 years from the exodus to the temple, there would be 251 times 11 from Adam to the temple (2761 years).

The difference again is 228 years.

Other periods were better known and could not be altered. The 19-year cycle is counted from their date of Creation, 3761 BC, and history was well established after Alexander and during the Era of Seleucid, after the spring of 311 BC (in the Babylonian Talmud).

TABLE 9. Sabbatical Years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall of

to spring/summer of

Fall of

to spring/summer of

Fall of

to spring/summer of

3761

-3760 BC

37

    -36 BC  (jubilee in the fall)

1189

-1190 AD (jubilee in the fall)

968

  -967 BC

62

  - 63 AD

2008

-2009 AD

520

  -519 BC

83

  - 84 AD

2015

-2016 AD

331

  -330 BC (jubilee in the fall)

132

- 133 AD

2022

-2023 AD (jubilee in the fall)

44

    -43 BC

475

- 476 AD

2043

-2044 AD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE 10. Dr. Herman Hoeh’s 50-year Jubilees: Handwritten Dated October 9, 1998

Revised     by

 

 

Jewish World Era

 

Correction

 

Floyd R. Cox
4-15-2014

 

 

Age at son’s birth

 

 

 

Adam                                              3760 BC

130

+224=

 

3984 BC

 

 

Adam lived 19 jubilees (Jubilees 4:29)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seth

105

 

105

 

 

 

Enos

90

 

90

 

 

 

Cainan

70

 

70

 

 

 

Mahalaleel

65

 

65

 

 

 

Jared

162

 

162

 

 

 

Enoch

65

 

65

 

 

 

Methuselah

187

 

187

 

 

 

Lamech

182

 

182

 

 

 

Noah age 502 at Shem’s birth

502

 

502

 

 

 

Shem born 98 years before the flood

98

 

98

 

 

 

2104 BC

1656

+224=

1656

2328 BC

1656

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arphaxad born 2 yrs. after the flood

2

 

2

 

 

 

Salah

35

 

35

 

 

 

Eber

30

 

30

 

 

 

Peleg born

34

 

34

 

 

 

2003 BC

101

+224=

101

2227 BC

 

 

Peleg

30

 

30

 

1757 (251 x 7)

 

Reu

32

 

32

 

 

 

Serug

30

 

30

 

 

 

Nahor

29

 

29

 

 

 

Terah

70

 

130

 

 

 

Abraham                                    1812 BC

292

+ 164 =

352

1976 BC

2008 (251 x 8)

 

Abraham

100

 

100

 

 

 

1712 BC

392

+ 164 =

452

1876 BC

 

 

Isaac                                              

60

 

60

 

 

 

Jacob                                               

91

 

91

 

 

 

Joseph born                                   1561 BC

 

 

 

278 BC

2259 (251 x 9)

 

Joseph age 39 arrived in Egypt      1522 BC

39

 

39

 

 

 

In Egypt until the exodus

210

 

239

(Should be 212)

 

 

Exodus                                          1312 BC

400

 

429

(Should be 402) 1447 BC + 2510 = 3957 BC)

Exodus

1312/11 BC

 

 

1447 BC

2510 (251 x 10)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crossing the Jordan

1272/71 BC

+ 134 =

 

1408/7 BC

 

Sabbatical

 

 

 

1401/0 BC

 

Jubilee

 

 

 

1358/57 BC

 

Sabbatical

1258/57 BC

 

 

1258/57 BC

 

Jubilee

1158/57 BC

 

 

1158/57 BC

 

Jubilee

1058/57 BC

 

 

1058/57 BC

 

1st temple founded

832 BC

+ 134 =

 

967 BC

 

Jubilee

 

 

 

958/57 BC

 

Jubilee: Josiah finds the lost Torah

458/57 BC

+ 134 =

 

623/22 BC

 

1st temple destroyed

422 BC

+ 164 =

 

586 BC

 

Dedication of 2nd temple

352 BC

+ 164 =

 

516 BC

 

Era of Seleucid

312 BC

+ 000 =

 

312 BC

 

2nd temple destroyed

69-70 AD

+ 000 =

 

69-70 AD

 

 

3828 years 3760 BC to 69-70 AD

 

 

4052 years to 69-70 AD

 

 


Notes on TABLE 10

Dr. Herman Hoeh tirelessly pursued any and all clues that would date the “time of the end” and influenced probably over two million followers. Creation was allegedly in 2024 BC. The end, therefore, would be in 1975 AD. On 10-9-1998 in “The Jewish World Era”, he revised creation as 3984 BC by showing how and where the rabbis had omitted 224 years. This would change creation from 3760 to 3984 BC. The Jews had subtracted 60 years between Abram and his father and subtracted 164 years (instead of 166) after the temple (832 BC instead of 966 BC) (60 + 164 = 224).

There were allegedly 239, instead of 210 years, in Egypt, but I have found no evidence to confirm these 239 years. My belief is that Joseph was born 251 years after Abraham’s birth and that he was 39 when his family went into Egypt (as noted in TABLE 11). Therefore, as for births, therefore, Abraham would have been 290, Isaac 190, Jacob 130, Joseph 39 years before the entry. Therefore, at the exodus, Abraham would have been 502 and, Isaac 402, and Joseph 39 at the exodus. Therefore, 39 years in the wilderness was 251 years since Joseph was 39 when his family entered into Egypt. This allows 212 years for the Israelites to dwell in Egypt. Abraham was called 430 years before the exodus while he dwelled in Ur, before his father died. He was called again 427 years before the exodus while he was in Haran, after his father died (Acts 7:2-4).

Precautions About 1975 In Prophecy

There are several precautions in rushing to judgment in setting dates for the time of the end. First of all, the Jews used sabbaticals and jubilees in calculating the first coming of the Messiah. In the alleged Testament of Levi found in the Lost Books of the Bible, chapter four, Levi says to his children, the future priests, “And now I have learnt that for seventy weeks you shall go astray, and profane the priesthood, and pollute the sacrifices” In chapter five, he proceeds to explain what would happen during these 490 years breaking them down into 49 years for each jubilee.

Next, Simeon bar Kochba attracted three million to revolt against the Romans in 132 AD by saying it was a jubilee, when they were to return to repossess Jerusalem and their own lands.

490 years later, Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina and learned from the Jewish population there they were expecting the arrival of their Messiah, especially in 622 AD, during their jubilee. The building of a Mosque in Jerusalem may be related to this event. 622 AD became the first year of the new Muslim calendar.

Next, Richard the Lionhearted led the Third Crusade in a jubilee year, 1189/90 trying to regain Jerusalem.

These are examples of what could be repeated in 1917, in the time of General Allenby and in our time… others may likely benefit from applying new meaning to the next jubilee.

The next TABLE 11 supports the 50th year jubilees were 49 years apart, and the 50th years was actually 49 years apart. 49 solar years are equal to 50˝ lunar years except for only one day! This means that in year one (the jubilee year) both the solar and lunar calendars start over at the same time. 98 solar years (two jubilees) equal 101 lunar years, as in the chart below.

Nevertheless, some interpret history by selecting events that are 50 years apart, as did German Rabbi. Strange that he did not follow the rabbinical calendar in dating the “time of the end” as 2240 AD.

Note that, before Ishmael was born, Abraham was told that his “seed” would live 400 years in a strange place serving other nations. This likely began when Isaac was weaned, when Abraham expelled Ishmael and his mother 30 years after Abraham was called in Ur 430 years before the exodus (Acts 7:6; Gen 15:13).

Notes on TABLE 11: False Assumptions using 49, 490 and 251-years

Adam lived 930 years, that is, 19 jubilees (Book of Jubilees 4:19), and Shem lived two jubilees until the flood. These two cycles should logically join somehow, but 1656 years to the flood do not fit. It’s 10 years off.

The 490-year view has 2548 years (364 sabbaticals or 52 jubilees) from Adam to the exodus. Therefore, an exodus in 1437 BC is 17 jubilees before 604 BC (which aligns with 457 BC, 34 AD and 132 AD).

In the 49-year cycle, Isaac is born 392 years (8 jubilees) after the flood, 490 years after Shem’s birth. Isaac was 60 when he had Jacob, and Jacob was allegedly 430 years before the exodus (which make 490 years after Isaac). The 490-year system used in TABLE 11 has the 122nd jubilee in 1994-95 (122 x 49 = 5978 years after creation) (49 x 50 after 457 BC), which allegedly makes 2015-16 the 5,999th year (5978 + 21 = 5,999).

In comparison to this, the 251-year view has 2510 years (251 times 10) from Adam to the exodus.­­­ It has 251 sabbaticals from Adam to the fall of Babel (when Peleg was born) and 61 sabbaticals from the flood to Abraham’s age 75 and another 61 sabbaticals from there until the exodus.

The Samaritan text subtracts one jubilee (49 years) from the 1757 years to Peleg (1757 – 49 = 1708).

Neither of these views aligns with the sabbaticals and jubilees after Joshua crossed the Jordan. Joshua’s sabbaticals were, evidently, created especially to record the history of the Israelites, from Joshua until their captivity. Solomon founded the temple in 968 BC, 439 years after Joshua crossed the Jordan (I Kings 6:1), but the jubilee was two years later, in 966 BC, 441 years after Joshua. 966 BC aligns with jubilees in 721, 623 and 574 BC (14 years after Jerusalem fell in 588-87, Ezek 40:1). This has been an enigma to every modern-day chronologist that insists that all sabbaticals must align. Which of these cycles should be used in Israel in our present century?

 

 

TABLE 11. 490-Year and 251-Year Patterns Compared

by Floyd R. Cox

 

49-Year System

 

251-Yr. System

 

4-15-2014

 

Age at son’s birth

 

 

Adam                                            3985 BC

131

-28=

130

3957 BC

 

Adam lived 19 jubilees (Jubilees 4:29)

 

 

 

 

 

Seth

106

 

105

 

 

Enos

91

 

90

 

 

Cainan

71

 

70

 

 

Mahalaleel

66

 

65

 

 

Jared

163

 

162

 

 

Enoch

66

 

65

 

 

Methuselah

188

 

187

 

 

Lamech

183

 

182

 

 

Noah age 502 at Shem’s birth

503

 

502

 

 

Shem born 98 years before the flood

98

 

98

 

 

 

1666

34 jubilees

1656

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arphaxad born 2 yrs. after the flood

2

 

2

 

 

Salah

35

 

35

 

 

Eber

30

 

30

 

 

Peleg born

34

 

34

 

 

 

101

 

101

(1757= 251 x 7)

 

Peleg

30

 

30

 

 

Reu

32

 

32

 

 

Serug

30

 

30

 

 

Nahor

29

 

29

 

 

Terah

70

 

130

 

 

Abraham                              

292

+60 =

352

(2008= 251 x 8)

 

Abraham

100

 

100

 

 

 

392

42 jubilees

452

 

 

Isaac

60

 

60

 

 

Jacob

91

 

91

 

 

Joseph

39

 

39

(2259= 251 x 9)

 

490

300

-88=

212

251

 

Exodus

490

52 jubilees

402

= 88 yrs difference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Flood to the Exodus

(7 x 126)    882

-28=

854

(7 x 122)

 

From Adam to the Exodus

(49 x 52)   2548

- 38=

2510

(2510= 251 x 10)

 

From Adam to the Exodus

BC 1437

+10=

BC 1447

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: BC 2548 (52 jubilees after Adam) is 98 years longer than 2450 years (49 x 50). It is 38 years longer than 2510 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE 12a. Proof that the book of “Jasher”
Subtracted 60 years before Abram was age 75

 

TABLE 12b

 

 

The book of Jasher.pdf

 

Massoretic Text

 

 

(From the Flood to Abraham’s age 75)

 

(King James Bible)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noah (after flood)     Abraham (after flood)

 

Abraham (after Flood)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham’s birth                             292                                  292

 

292

 

 

  55                                    55

 

  55

 

 

                       347      Abram age 55=    347

 

347

 

 

3 years in Haran (Jasher 13:3-5)         3  To  Haran                    3

 

    3

 

 

Noah’s death, age =          600 +   350 = 950, Abram 58=    350

 

Noah’s death 350

 

 

                                                          Left Haran         3           3

 

    2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                          Abram age 61=    353

 

Abraham’s birth      352

< When his father was 130

 

                                                                           4           4

 

   72

 

 

                                                          Abram age 65=    357

 

 

 

 

                                                             5

 

 

 

 

15th year of Abram in Haran at age 55-    Abram age 70=    362

 

Abram age    72=    424

430 yrs before exodus

 

 

                                                  Back to Haran         5           5

 

To Haran                    3

(Ex 12:41)

 

 

20th year of Abram in Haran at age 55-    Abram age 75=    367

 

Abram age    75=    427

427 yrs before exodus

 

 

                                    Left Haran

 

Left Haran

 

 

                                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jasher 13:1: “And Abram remained in Haran three years, and at the expiration of three years the Lord appeared to Abram… Arise now, take your wife and all belonging to you and go to the land of Canaan and remain there…” (Jasher 13:3-5).

Abram’s First Trip to Canaan

“At the end of that time, at the end of three years of Abram’s dwelling in the land of Canaan, in that year Noah died, which was the fifty-eighth year of the life of Abram; and all the days of Noah’s life were nine hundred and fifty years and he died” (Jasher 13:9).

 

Abraham was
called Twice
(Acts 7:2-4)

1. 430 years before the exodus (Ex 12:41).

2. 427 years before the exodus (as TABLE 12b).

 

 

 

 

367 + 60 = 427

 

 

 

Proof that “Jasher”
subtracted 60 years
between Abram and his father.

 

Jasher 22:33 & Genesis 11:32 say,
“The days of Terah were 205 years.” Abram was 75 when his father died (Gen 12:4) (205-75=130) (Acts 7:4).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE 13.  Compared With the Rabbinic System
The rabbinic system has 40 yrs. From Eli to the temple based upon I Sam. 6:2 but ignores I Sam. 12:18 when Saul borrowed the Ark from Abinadab (and undoubtedly returned it).

 

 

 

 

 

 

251-yr. System

 

Rabbinic System

590-yr. System

PRIOR TO THE OPPRESSIONS

 

 

 

 

 

Exodus & Wilderness

40

 

40

 

40

Joshua                        Joshua 13:29

7

41st – 47th Yr.

25

 

25

Elders rule

36

 

18

 

18

 

83

 

83

 

83

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPPRESSIONS

 

 

 

 

 

Cushan

8

 

0

 

8

Moabites

18

 

0

 

18

Jabin

20

 

0

 

20

Midianites

7

 

0

 

7

Ammonites

18

 

0

 

18

Philistines

40

 

0

 

40

 

111

 

00

 

111

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUDGES

 

 

 

 

 

Othniel

 

 

40

 

40

Ehud

 

 

80

 

80

Shamgar

 

 

0

 

0

Deborah

The 251-year system allows

The 479-year system

40

 

40

Gideon

the judges to rule during the

allows the oppressions

40

111

40

Abimelech

times of oppression and/or

to be during the times

3

339

3

Tola

during the times of rest as in

of the judges as in the

45

Acts 13:20--  450

23

Jair                                          

the 40 years of Philistine

31 years of Jephthah.

 

 

22

Jephthah                             

oppression in the time of

6

 

 

6

Ibsan

Samson and Eli.

7

 

 

7

Elon

 

10

 

 

10

Abdon

 

8

31

 

8

Samson

 

 

20

 

20

Eli

 

 

40

 

40

 

00

 

339

 

339

 

 

 

 

 

 

KINGS

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel alone and fighting Philistines

20

I Sam. 7:2

10

 

10

Samuel alone, peace with Philistines

18

I Sam. 7:13; 8:1

 

Acts 13:12

18

Saul wars with Philistines

12

         I Sam. 14:52

2

 

22

David contemporary with Saul

5

II Sam. 2:10,11

6

 

5

David contemporary with Ishbosheth

2

II Sam. 4:8; 5:3-6

2

 

2

Jerusalem conquered in David’s 8th year

 

I Chron. 11:3-4

 

I Sam. 7:2

 

 

57

 

20

II Sam. 6:2-3

57

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTALS to Era of Jerusalem

251

 

442

 

590

 

 

 

 

 

 

David in Jerusalem

 

 

33

 

 

Solomon until temple is founded

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

37

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTALS from the exodus to the Era of Solomon’s Temple

479

 

 

 



[1] The exodus was about 251 years before David brought the Ark into Jerusalem in 1004 BC. This is supported by the rabbinic chronology after restoring its missing 62 years. This dating is supported by Jack Finegan in his Handbook of Biblical Chronology when he says the Exodus was about 40 years prior to the 5th year of Merneptah (son of Ramses II) and it is supported by Kenneth Kitchen when he associates the exodus with the death of a son of Ramesses II in 1262 BC.