The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

Furuli’s Second Book 503
Another possibility is that Venus and Saturn were confused. Venus, in fact, was 8 o “in front
of” (= west of) α Virginis at this time.
FURULI: YEAR 7 = 640 BCE:
Line 13: Year 7 in Furuli’s revised chronology is 640 BCE. The last visibility of Saturn in
640 occurred in the evening of September 10, and the previous first lunar visibility in the
evening of September 3 according to the program. This would make the distance from the
1 st of the lunar month 6 (September 3) to the last visibility of Saturn (September 10) only 7
days.
This conflicts with the tablet, which shows that more than 10 days (“10+[x]”) separated the
two events.
Line 14: The program shows that in 640 BCE the first visibility of Saturn occurred in the
morning of October 12 (Walker, October 10). The previous first lunar visibility took place
in the evening of October 3. If that was the beginning of day 1 in the lunar calendar, “day
15” of month 7 would have begun in the evening of October 17, with the first visibility of
Saturn occurring in the next morning on October 18. But this was 6 days after the date
given by the program (October 12) and 8 days after Walker’s date (October 10). This
deviation excludes year 640 as the 7 th year of Kandalanu.
The position of Saturn is given on the tablet as “´in front of´ the Furrow α+ ( Virginis)”,
which also seems to conflict with Furuli’s alternative chronology. Its position on October 12
and 10 (and still on October 18) in 640 was about 12 o behind α Virginis, not in front of,
above, or below the star. But as the signs are somewhat damaged here, this position is not
decisive.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Above the entries for the first seven years of Kandalanu have been examined. This is half of
the entries on the tablet which covers 14 years in all. It is not necessary to tire out the reader
with a detailed discussion of the remaining entries. The results for the whole period are
presented in the two tables below. The tables show the results only for the entries with fully
preserved dates (15 out of the 28 lines). The first table shows how these records tally with
the traditional chronology, and the second table shows how they tally with Furuli’s revised
dates.