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  2. Missing years (Jewish calendar) - Wikipedia

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    However, from Cyrus' taking of Babylon in the 17th year of the reign of Nabonidus, only 9 years remained of Cyrus' 29-year reign. [38] This view is corroborated by Ptolemy's Canon . The nine years of Cyrus' reign as mentioned by him only reflect the number of regnal years remaining after Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE.

  3. Babylonian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian calendar was a ... Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 76 (1982), 70–71. ... ed., "Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the ...

  4. Seder Olam Rabbah - Wikipedia

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    The major difference being that in Seder Olam's chronology (which teaching is followed by the Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 11b) the seventy-year period was defined by only three Babylonian kings, namely: Nebuchadnezzar who reigned 45 years, Evil-merodach who reigned 23 years and Belshazzar who reigned 3 (for a total of 71 years, with one year ...

  5. Timeline of the Hebrew prophets - Wikipedia

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    prophecy of Jonah [1] during the time of Babylonian captivity, though dating of the book ranges from the 6th to the late 3rd century BC. c. 796 BC–c. 768 BC [citation needed] King Amaziah of Judah. prophecy of Amos, Hosea. c. 767 BC–c. 754 BC [citation needed] King Uzziah of Judah c. 740 BC–c. 700 BC [citation needed] prophecy of Isaiah ...

  6. Traditional Jewish chronology - Wikipedia

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    Jewish tradition has long preserved a record of dates and time sequences of important historical events related to the Jewish nation, including but not limited to the dates fixed for the building and destruction of the Second Temple, and which same fixed points in time (henceforth: chronological dates) are well-documented and supported by ancient works, although when compared to the ...

  7. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    Adin Steinsaltz born, author of the first comprehensive Babylonian Talmud commentary since Rashi in the 11th century. 1939 The British government issues the 'White Paper'. The paper proposed a limit of 10,000 Jewish immigrants for each year between 1940 and 1944, plus 25,000 refugees for any emergency arising during that period. 1938–1945

  8. Timeline of the Second Temple period - Wikipedia

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    The Second Temple period in Jewish history began with the end of the Babylonian captivity and the Persian conquest of the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE. A new temple to replace the destroyed Solomon's Temple was built in Jerusalem by the returnees, and the Second Temple was finished around 516 BCE.

  9. Chronology of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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    [21] Using it, various scholars have proposed dates for the fall of Babylon based on the 56/64-year cycle of Venus. It has been suggested that the fundamental 8-year cycle of Venus is a better metric, leading to the proposal of an "ultra-low" chronology. [22] Other researchers have declared the data to be too noisy for any use in fixing the ...