Edwin Richard Thiele
Auteur van The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings
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The Mysterious numbers of the Hewrew kings 1 exemplaar
Knowing God 1 exemplaar
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To simplify, not all cultures use the same systems of dating. Did a king co-reign with his father? Because one source might say X occurred in his 3rd year, another source might call it his 11th year - talking about the same event, same year, but one source counting from his sole reign, the other from when he first began to co-reign. Howabout, is this year 1 or zero of King X? Do you use an inclusive count or an exclusive count. I'll give one example. To an American, a week is 7 days, 2 weeks is 14 days, 3 is 21 days, etc. To the Hispanic, the week is 8 days, 2 weeks is 15 days, 3 weeks is 22 days. The American way is exclusive, the Hispanic is inclusive. They make as much sense, they're just different. Not knowing the difference can mess one up: Julius Caesar got his calendar from foreigners (Egypt & Greece). They said to have a leap year every four years (they were talking exclusive count). So Caesar told his fellow Latins to have leap year every four years - but they just assumed it was their inclusive count. That meant it was every three years in the exclusive method. So from something like about 15 BC to about AD 5 (I forget the exact dates, just giving it from memory, but included the whole time frame when Jesus might have been born) they had no leap years so they could get the calendar back in sync.
Thiele goes through the Biblical and archaeological evidence to find out which kings (or at least their recorders) used what system of dating. It turns out that what look like errors in dating of the kings (say, II Kings says he was king 17 years, II Chronicles says 18) aren't errors. The dates from the Bible work out very nicely if you understand the multiple systems in use, and fit nicely with the secular dates as well.
There are a couple places he chooses to decide there is an error in our current Bibles, either because of copyists errors in the manuscripts we've chosen to use, or, because we didn't and maybe still don't know about another system in use.… (meer)