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• Amazon Sales Rank: #204453 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

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• ISBN13: 9780914675075
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Language Notes
Text: English, Swedish (translation)

Customer Reviews

is the Truth true?
As most who would read this book know, the 1914 date is doctrinally central to the Jehovah's Witness movement (often referred to by Witnesses as "the Truth"). Unlike the Faithful Slave or the Paradise or the rapidly approaching End, the 1914 date does not play a vital emotional role in Jehovah's Witnesses' lives, but these doctrines are all inextricably bound up with the 1914 date. And 1914 CE is founded on 607 BCE.
If the 607 BCE date is really the one indicated by the Bible, this would be one of the greatest proofs for how unhistorical the Bible is, for it would put the Bible in conflict with the harmonious chronologies of Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon for a significant period of ancient history. As with its claim to have "restored" of the name "Jehovah" to the New Testament after it was removed in hundreds of instances so completely and at such an early date that not a single manuscript survives containing the ineffable Name, the Watchtower Society demonstrates more interest in supporting the doctrines unique to its sect then in defending the Bible. However, the Bible's value for a religion should not be dependent on its value as a historical book; to dismiss a whole religion over trivial details of history is unfair. Nonetheless, one would expect truth in one area of life (religion) to be in some sort of harmony with truth in another area (history). The chronology used by scholars is established by thousands of ancient texts, some of which are contemporaneous with the events described. Furthermore, without these ancient texts it is impossible to convert the Bible's relative chronology into an absolute chronology. Jonsson's comprehensive and authoritative book defends the Bible's essential harmony with history against the claims of Jehovah's Witnesses, their apologists (particularly Rolf Furuli), and those whose similar agendas cause them to create new chronologies. In order to do this, he explains how the chronologies of Babylon and Assyria are determined and comments on relevant passages in the Bible. He also provides an outline of the history of the development of the hermeneutical principles underlying the Jehovah's Witnesses' exegesis of time prophecies related to the calculation of the Gentile Times. His work is authoritative precisely because it is not original. Rather, it represents a systematic and virtually exhaustive presentation of data from scholarly authorities.

Very detailed
Great book. Very detailed and technical so that there's no doubt that the information that is relayed is understood. The author obviously did his research by the wealth of information that he provides for the basis of his thought. For anyone out there that doubts this authors facts or still holds onto the 1914 date, he has cited all works (a plethora of them), people and places (i.e. museums) so that you can go back and check the information for yourself.

A far-reaching study of ancient chronology
This book is capable to reveal how Watchtower Society subtly have been hiding of their members the basic problems of her private chronological interpretation.