The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

‘ad-ratsetah ha’arets ‘et -shabbetoteyha kol-yemey hashammah shabbatah
Sham Scholarship 467
until-she-enjoyed the-land her-sabbaths all-days to-be-desolate she-rested
‘az tirtseh ha’arets ‘et-shabbetoteyha ...kol-yemey hashammah tishebat
then she-will-enjoy the-land her-sabbaths ...all-days to-be-desolate she-willrest
These statements are nearly identical, the only differences being found in the
words expressing time, namely the two introductory particles and the tenses of
the first and the last verb in each of them: in Leviticus the first particle is‘az, an
adverb signifying ‘then’, here clearly referring to the future, while the Chronicler
has‘ad, a preposition meaning ‘until’, pointing back in time. Both use the same
verbs, in almost the same grammatical form, namely qal, 3rd prs sg fem, the
only difference being in the tense; the first verb is ratsah (‘to enjoy’), for which
Leviticus has the future tirtseh (‘she will enjoy’), while the Chronicler has the
preterite ratsetah (‘she enjoyed’), signifying the past. Then the final verb is
shabbat, (‘to rest’), with the Chronicler it is in the preterite, shabbatah, (‘she
rested’), while in Leviticus it is tishebat (‘she will rest’), in the future tense. The
subjects, the direct objects and the time adverbials, also the verbs following
(hashammah, ‘to be desolate’) are identical in both clauses.
There can be little doubt that the Chronicler had both the prophecy of
Jeremiah and the book of Leviticus to hand when he penned the last chapter of
his book, and it is interesting to see how he took exactly the relevant parts of
Leviticus 26:34, 35 and added them to his own statement in 36:21 which
included the information from Jeremiah, who, however, had nothing from
Leviticus at all.
RF’s parallels
Alas, on page 80 RF persists in his stubbornness, stating quite untruthfully that
‘Jeremiah was the first to mention an exile of 70 years’ which he was not, for
neither he nor anyone else did that! He mentioned the seventy years, also the
exile and its end, but neither he nor any other prophet stated in just so many
words that that exile would last 70 years! Apparently we have to repeat that
statement time and again, because RF stubbornly refuses to admit that simple
truth! Then, in the last passage before RF’s ‘parallels’ we note a printing error in
the third line from the bottom, where ‘lead’ should read ‘led’. As for the many
scriptures he has selected for these ‘parallels’, there is of course nothing wrong
with them, only they do not prove his contentions, which of course couldn’t be
expected.
However, let us take a look at these parallels in which he compares verses from
Jeremiah with verses from Leviticus: first, we note that not one of the verses
here taken from Jeremiah contains a literal quotation from Leviticus! They even
seem to have been chosen rather haphazardly, as though RF has merely picked
them out at random from a concordance, with no proper study of their
contents, to wit:
In the first one, Jer. 11:10 vs Lev. 26:14, the latter ought to have been or at least
included verse 15, and the next one, Lev. 26:31, should have been or included