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The Seventy Years of Babylon

The Seventy Years of Babylon 304 massoretique, comme dans le participe gatil devenu Ainsi, la vocalisation dif?cile des massoretes temoigne avec exactitude de l'origine du terme et il faut la conserver telle quelle. Paris P. GRELOT THE SEVENTY YEARS OF BABYLON C. F. WHITLEY'S inquiry into "The Term Seventy Years Captivity" iv, 1954, p. 60-72) raised many interesting questions, although on the whole it tends to complicate an otherwise simple and rather important issue. The seventy-years period is mentioned in the following passages: Jer. xxv 11, 12; xxix 10; Zech. i 12; vii 5; Dan. ix 2 (possibly elabora- ted on in ix 24-27); 2 Chr. xxxvi 21 1). Now the very term "seventy years captivity" is misleading; none of the passages which can lay any claim to being original attribute the term to the captivity of Judah. Dan. ix 2 and 2 Chr. xxxvi 21 explicitly declare their dependence on Jeremiah by quoting him on the subject of the seventy years 2), and are therefore irrelevant for the elucidation of the original meaning of that term. The words ??rv fill in Zech. vii 5 are indeed very probably an interpretation by a later hand, as claimed by WHITLEY 3); in any case, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

The Seventy Years of Babylon

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 6 (1): 304 – Jan 1, 1956

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Brill
Copyright
© 1956 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-4935
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1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853356X00314
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Abstract

304 massoretique, comme dans le participe gatil devenu Ainsi, la vocalisation dif?cile des massoretes temoigne avec exactitude de l'origine du terme et il faut la conserver telle quelle. Paris P. GRELOT THE SEVENTY YEARS OF BABYLON C. F. WHITLEY'S inquiry into "The Term Seventy Years Captivity" iv, 1954, p. 60-72) raised many interesting questions, although on the whole it tends to complicate an otherwise simple and rather important issue. The seventy-years period is mentioned in the following passages: Jer. xxv 11, 12; xxix 10; Zech. i 12; vii 5; Dan. ix 2 (possibly elabora- ted on in ix 24-27); 2 Chr. xxxvi 21 1). Now the very term "seventy years captivity" is misleading; none of the passages which can lay any claim to being original attribute the term to the captivity of Judah. Dan. ix 2 and 2 Chr. xxxvi 21 explicitly declare their dependence on Jeremiah by quoting him on the subject of the seventy years 2), and are therefore irrelevant for the elucidation of the original meaning of that term. The words ??rv fill in Zech. vii 5 are indeed very probably an interpretation by a later hand, as claimed by WHITLEY 3); in any case,

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Vetus TestamentumBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1956

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