The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

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Christian era, 72, 73
Chronicles: Neo-Babylonian, 100-105, 148;
nature of, 100; reliability of, 104, 105; BM 21946,
101 (picture), 102, 201-203, 207, 295, 296, 339,340,
342, 343; Nabonidus Chronicle, 102, 103 (with picture);
BM 21901, 233; BM 22047, 346
Chronological 1inks, 129-139, 151
Chronology: central role in Watch Tower teaching,
2, 5; absolute and relative, 74-76; Assyro-
Babylonian, 97; Neo-Babylonian (tables), 98,
117, 121, 350-352. See also Time periods: 70 years
Clarke, I. F., 64
Clement of Alexandria, 300
Collins, John J., 255, 337, 338
Conditional immortality, 43, 312-314
Contenau, G., 120, 322
Contract tablets, see Economic-administrative texts
Cooper, David L., 193
Couture, Philip, 309, 310
Cowles, J. P., 42
Coxon, Peter W., 255
Cummings, Jonathan, 43
Cuneiform: writing and tablets, 99
Cuninghame, William, 36
Cyaxares, king of Media, 104, 233
Cyrus: king of Anshan, 102; defeats Media, 102-104,
247; total rule 29 years, 103; ruled Babylonia for 9
years, 75-79, 81, 83, 85, 100, 329; foretold, 192;
decree of, 90, 224; “10th year” of, 322, 323
”Cyrus Cylinder,” 90
Dandamaev, M. A. 115, 118 ,119, 122, 124,
126, 128, 135, 136, 234, 329
Daniel the prophet: age of, 127; brought to
Babylon in 605 BCE, 204-207
”Darius the Mede,” 75, 78, 193
Darius I, 75, 105, 124, 194, 300, 301, 368
Dates, specific:
776 BCE, start of Olympiad era, 82; 689 BCE,
Sennacherib’s desolation of Babylon, 231; 652/651
BCE, battle at Hiritu, 165-168; 610/609 BCE,
capture of Harran and fall of Assyria, 111-113,
232-235, 346; 607 BCE, desolation of Jerusalem
and beginning of the Gentile times in Watch
Tower chronology, 7, 59, 73, 77, 79, 85, 87, 89-91,
98, 179, 191, 229, 283, 284, 291, 294, 304-311; 606
BCE, earlier date for the beginning of Gentile
times, 39, 40, 47, 50, 52, 53, 59-61, 78, 79, 238,
239; 605 BCE, battle of Carchemish, and
Nebuchadnezzar’s accession year, 20, 70, 201-204,
209, 230-232, 319, 335; 604 BCE, 1st year of
Nebuchadnezzar, 59, 69, 98, 124, 158; 597 BCE,
deportation of Jehoiachin, 293, 294; 589 BCE,
siege of Jerusalem begins, 227, 229; 587 BCE, 18th
year of Nebuchadnezzar and the desolation of
Jerusalem, 7, 52, 76-78 ,81, 85, 98, 113, 128, 146-
152, 158, 159, 180, 186-190, 227-229, 236, 238,
278, 291-294; 586 BCE, alternative date for the
desolation of Jerusalem, 7, 76, 293, 294; 568/567
BCE, 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar, fixed by VAT
4956, 84, 158-160, 164; 550 BCE, fall of Media,
103, 104; 539 BCE, fall of Babylon, 73, 75,
78-87, 90, 103, 199, 200, 235, 251, 291, 302; 538
BCE, first year of Cyrus, 76-79, 81, 85; return
of Jewish exiles, 90, 223; 537 BCE, Watch
Tower date for return of exiles, 90, 191, 200;
536 BCE, end of the 70 years in Russell’s
chronology, 78, 79, 81; 530 BCE, last year of
Cyrus, 85; 455 BCE, 20th year of Artaxerxes I
in Watch Tower chronology, 73, 82, 84, 194,
353, 354; 445 BCE, correct date for 20th year
of Artaxerxes I, 82, 84, 194, 353; 70 CE,
Roman destruction of Jerusalem, 245, 279- 281;
622, first year of the Hegira era, 32; 1798, fixed
as beginning of “time of the end” by Adventist
groups, 30, 274, 277, 278; changed by C. T.
Russell to 1799, 277, 278; 1843, predicted end
of prophetic time periods and the second
advent, 32, 35, 38, 39, 41; later changed to 1844,
32, 35, 39, 42; later changed by N. H. Barbour
to 1873, date of second advent as fixed by N.
H. Barbour, 44, 45, 49; later changed to 1874,
14, 43-45, 49, 241; 1914, Watch Tower date for
the beginning of Christ’s rule and end of
Gentile times, 2-6, 39, 40 ,43, 44, 47, 48, 50, 52,
53, 59-63, 65-71,77-79, 229, 236, 238, 241, 243,
257-264, 266, 267, 272-278, 305, 311; end of
Gentile times changed by PBI Bible Students to
1934, 236-243; 1941, predicted climax of the
“time of trouble”, 15, 276.-For tables on
applications of the 1260 and 2,520 years, see pages 33
and 60-61.
Dawn Bible Students, 310
Dean, David Arnold, 312-314
Delaisi, M. Francis, 64
Delitzsch, Friedrich, 207
Belling, G., 269
Depuydt, Leo, 94
Desolation (chorbáh) of Judah, 191, 197
Diakonoff, I. M., 104
Diodorus, 81, 84
Dionysius Exiguus, 73
Dougherty, Raymond Philip, 91
Drews, Robert, 94
Drummond, Henry, 36, 37, 46
Duffield, George, 45, 276
Dunlap, Edward, 20, 283
Ecbatana, capital of Media, 102
Economic-administrative texts: discussion of, 85,
86, 118-121, 150, 190, 289; numbers published,
118, 119; chronological information (table),
121; archives of, 122; copying, reading, and
scriba1 errors, 321-323
Edgar, John and Morton, 52, 53, 336, 337
Edwards, T. C., 268
Egibi business house, 122-125, 322
Éhulhul (temple of Sin): destruction of, 111,
112; rebuilding of, 112, 329, 330
Elliott, Edward Bishop, 26, 27, 38, 39, 40, 44,
62, 69, 276
Emerson, Joseph, 276
En-nigaldi-Nanna, daughter of Nabonidus, 109,
110
Enuma Anu Enlil, 110, 332, 333
Eph’al, Israel, 197
Epping, J., 153