The Dates of the 587/6 BCE Capture and Destruction of Jerusalem
Abstract
The present article examines the dates of the 587/6 BCE capture and destruction of Jerusalem, which differ across the parallel accounts in 2 Kgs 24:18–25:21 and Jer 52:1–30. I argue that the Masoretic Text of Jer 52:6 gives the correct date of Jerusalem’s capture, even though the relevant phrase is a later insertion. In addition, I propose a new solution for the problem of the variant dates of the city’s destruction. According to this solution, the original date has been preserved by 2 Kgs 25:8, while the date given in Jer 52:12 has been influenced by an incorrect assumption about the date of the capture.
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- Authors
- de Waard, H.
- Affiliations
- Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn The Netherlands Apeldoorn
- Venue
- Textus
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2020-02-05
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-7
- ISSN
- 0082-3767 (ISSN-L)
- 2589-255X
- OpenAlex
- W3010807380
- Semantic Scholar
- 1429cc95c11200b30ce12582e1cc193ab13078f9
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- 0
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- 0
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- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Textus (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Keywords
- dating of historical events, Masoretic text, textual variants, Babylonian exile, Deutero-Isaiah, chronology
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