Notes on Jewish chronology

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Reverendissimo Viro D. P. Allix S.T.D
Is. Newton S.P.

Vir dignissime

Quamvis linguæ Latinæ multo minus assuetus sim quam vernacu{læ} tamen ut Responsum tibi magis gratum sit, rescribam in hæc Lingua licet stylo rudiore.

Nebuchadnezzar regnavit annos 43 a morte patris juxta Canonem annos vero 45 a quarto Iehojakim & victa Palestina juxta sacras literas: annos scilicet octo ad captivitatem Iehojakin & inde annos 37 ad initium regni filij sui Evilmerodach 2 Reg. 24.12 & 25.27. Anni autem a morte Nebuchadnezzaris ad quartum annum Darij Hystaspis inclusive sunt 44 juxta Canonem . Ab annorum summa 89 aufer annos 18 & menses quatuor usque ad interitum urbis excurrentes, & ab hoc interitu ad mensem nonum quarti anni Darij Histaspis manebunt anni septuaginta et menses quatuor. Et in fine hujus temporis Propheta dicere potuit Quum jejunaris & planxistis quinto [ob interitum Vrbis ac Templi] et septimo mense [ sc. ob interitum Vrbis & cædem Gedaliæ,] ut illis septuaginta annis, an ullo pacto mihi, mihi inquam jejunastis? Zech. 7.5

Invasa fuit Iudæa a Chaldæis anno nono Zedeciæ & obsessa urbs Hierosolymorum mense decimo, ejusdem anni 2 Reg 25.1. Et inde ad mensem undecimum anni secundi Darij sunt anni septuaginta. Et propterea in fine illius temporis Propheta dicere potuit: O Iehova exercituum quousque tu miseraturus es Hierosolymorum & civitatum Iudææ in quas indignatus es jam septuaginta annis. Zech. 1.12.

The conquest of Iudæa by Nebuchadnezzar in the first year of his reign over the Iews & fourth of Iehojakims reign, was sixteen years & some months before the siege of Ierusalem & so long was the first year of Cyrus over Persia before the eleventh month of the second year of Darius Hystaspis: & therefore from the conquest of Iudea by Nebuchadnezzar in the 4^th year of Iehojakim to the return of the Iews from captivity in the first year of Cyrus were 70 years, as in the prophesies of Ieremiah.

Sub reditu captivitatis Babylonicæ anno primo Cyri, potuit Iddo esse senex annorum septuaginta aut amplius & ejus filius Barchiah esse vir annorum plus minus quadraginta quinque vel quinquaginta & Ejus Nepos Zechariah Propheta esse juvenis annorum plus minus viginti vel viginti et quinque. Et post annos sexdecim, anno scilicet secundo Darij Hystaspis, Zechariah potuit esse vir annorum 36 vel 40 ubi cœpit esse Propheta.

Sed Zerubbabelem rexisse Iudæos ad usque annum secundum Darij Nothi id est annis 114 et Ieshuam toto illo tempore sacerdotium summum gessisse non est admodum verisimile. Et multo minus verisimile est senes tunc in vivis fuisse qui templum primum viderant, ante annos 165 igne consumptum. Haggai 2.3.

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For I meet with no other years among the ancients then such as were either Luni-solar or solar or Lunar or the Calendars of these years. A practical year of 360 days would have run round the seasons in 70 years & such a notable revolution would have been mentioned in History.

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Considerations about the Iulian Calendar

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Considerations
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