Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Right! The discrepancy between the Hebrew and Secular
chronologies is only 166 years (for me, because I date the
destruction of the first temple to 586, for those who date it
(erroneously) ;)  to 587, the descrepancy is 167 years.

Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kirk [mailto:Peter_Kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:28 AM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: Hebrew Calendar
>
>
> The 240 years sounds more like the discrepancy between the Hebrew calendar
> and the traditional Christian one of Archbishop Ussher etc, according to
> which it is now not 5761 but 6004 years since the Creation.
>
> Peter Kirk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruthy & Baruch [mailto:alster AT bezeqint.net]
> Sent: 03 January 2001 20:21
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: Hebrew Calendar
>
>
> Liz Fried wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know the dates of the destructions
> > of the first and second temple according
> > to the Hebrew Calendar's year dating?
> > Is it true that 240 years are missing?
>
> The destruction of the first temple is dated AM 3338 in Rabbinic
> tradition,
> which, as we are now in AM 5761, is the equivalent of 422 BCE.  The
> difference results mainly from the Rabbinic view that the Persian
> rule over
> Jerusalem lasted only 52 years (counting 18 before the temple was rebuilt.
> See Seder Olam 30).  This is 164 years after the destruction according to
> modern historians, not 240.  After the death of Alexander the Great,
> however, there are virtually no discrepancies between the two
> chronologies.
> The difference between them about the date of the second temple's
> destruction is two years: according to Seder Olam 28, the temple
> lasted 420
> years, putting its destruction at AM 3828 (68 CE).
>
> There have been a few traditionalist attempts to account for these
> discrepancies.  See Y. Medan's Hebrew article in _Megadim_ 14 (1991), esp.
> pp. 67-77.
>
> Kol Tuv,
> Baruch Alster
> Kochav Ya`akov, Israel
>
>
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