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310 THE GENTILE TIMES RECONSIDERED Adventist, William MacCarty, who wrote a booklet on the Watch Tower Society’s Gentile times calculation back in 1975. 51 Like Furuli’s first paper, Couture’s treatise is an attempt to undermine the reliability of the historical sources for the Neo- Babylonian chronology. Despite his efforts, however, he fails to come up with even one tenable argument that can move the burden of evidence against the 607 B.C.E. date. The reason for this simply is that, however skilful and capable a person may be, it will in the end be impossible for him to find any real and valid support for an idea that is false and therefore impossible to defend. About half of Couture’s treatise deals with astronomy and its relation to Neo-Babylonian chronology. Unfortunately, this is an area that Couture was not quite familiar with. Thus, although a separate section of his paper contains a “word of caution” regarding “the use and abuse of eclipses,” he himself repeatedly falls into the very pitfalls against which he warns. 52 As this and other important points brought up by Couture have been dealt with in various sections of the present work, no further comments on his treatise are given here. 53 I do not know if Couture is still prepared to defend his position. Some of the other papers sent to me present discussions of the Biblical passages on the seventy years, but ignore the historical evidence against the 607 B.C.E. date. 54 Such a discussion is not, as the author of the paper may intimate, an attempt to defend the 51 William MacCarty,1914 and Christ’s Second Coming (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1975). 52 One example of this is his discussion of the lunar eclipse on Ululu 13 of the second year of Nabonidus, described in the royal inscription Nabon. No. 18, which modern astronomers have identified with the one that took place on September 26, 554 B.C.E. (This eclipse is discussed in Chapter 3 of the present work, section B-1-c.) On page 11 of his treatise, Couture claims that “within a few years either direction there are a number of other lunar eclipses which are just as possible.” But at none of the six alternative eclipses presented by Couture (dating from 563 to 543 B.C.E.) did the moon set heliacally, as is explicitly stated in the inscription, and three of them were not even visible in Babylonia! Such errors reveal that Couture did not know how to calculate and identify ancient lunar eclipses. 53 For readers who have read Couture’s treatise and are interested in my response to it, a separate, detailed refutation is available at a charge to cover copying costs and postage. 54 One example of this is a book of 136 pages written by Charles F. Redeker, The Biblical 70 Years. A Look at the Exile and Desolation Periods (Southfield, Michigan: Zion’s Tower of the Morning, 1993). Redeker is a member of the Dawn Bible Students, a conservative Bible Student offshoot of the Watchtower organization formed in the early 1930’s in reaction to the many changes of Russell’s teachings introduced by the Watch Tower Society’s second president, Joseph F. Rutherford.
Attempts to Overcome the Evidence 311 Bible against attacks founded upon secular sources. Rather, it is an attempt to force the meaning of the Biblical texts to adapt them to a theory that is in glaring conflict with all historical sources from the Neo-Babylonian period. The choice in such discussions is not really between the Bible and secular sources; it is between the rantings of over-exalted minds and the historical evidence. As long as the historical reality is ignored, such discussions amount to little more than futile exercises in escapism or wishful thinking. It is to be expected that the attempts to overcome the historical evidence against the 607 B.C.E. date presented in this work will continue. New discussions, prepared by the Watch Tower Society and/or other defenders of the 607 B.C.E.–1914 C.E. calculation will probably appear in the future. If, at least on the surface, some arguments presented in such discussions appear to have some strength, they will have to be critically examined and evaluated. If it turns out to be necessary, a running commentary on such discussions will be made available on the Internet.
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