The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

Furuli’s First Book 403
Chapter 4: Pages 66-92:
In Chapter 4, Furuli presents his views on “the chronological accounts of
Claudius Ptolemy” and of those of some other ancient authors (pp. 66-74),
then discusses the 70-year prophecy of Jeremiah. (pp. 75-92)
In the material that follows (Part One of this review; Parts Two and Three will
be published at a later date), I critically examine the argumentation of these four
chapters.
Acknowledgements are made to a number of scholars and knowledgeable
colleagues for their assistance in preparing this review. I choose not to mention
any names, as some of them, for various reasons, need to remain anonymous. I
am indebted to all of them for their observations, suggestions, criticism, and, in
particular, for the professional help given by two of them with proof-reading
and polishing my English and grammar.
For some works often referred to in the discussion below the following
abbreviations are used:
ADT Abraham J. Sachs and Hermann Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related
Texts from Babylonia (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften. Vol. I – 1988, II – 1989, III – 1996, V – 2001).
CBT Erle Leichty et al, Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum,
Vols. 6, 7, and 8 (1986, 1987, and 1988). These volumes list the tablets from
Sippar held at BM.
GTR 4 Carl Olof Jonsson, The Gentile Times Reconsidered, 4 th ed. (Atlanta:
Commentary Press, 2004).
LBAT Abraham J. Sachs (ed.), Late Babylonian Astronomical and Related Texts.
Copied by T. G. Pinches and J. N. Strassmaier (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown
University Press, 1955).
PD Richard A. Parker and Waldo H. Dubberstein, Babylonian Chronology 626
B.C.—A.D. 75 (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1956).