https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_(Jewish_calendar)
Shimon Schwab points to the words "seal the words and close the book" in the book of Daniel as a positive commandment to obscure the calculations for the Messiah mentioned within, so that the true date of the Messiah's arrival would not be known.[28] However, Schwab later withdrew this suggestion for numerous reasons.[23]: 281-285 [24]: 66–67 [25]: 67–68, 93
There's a book out there that suggests that the common story: that the Greeks completely overran and conquered the Persian Empire is incorrect and that the Persian Empire actually survived in part for over a hundred years alongside the Greek one. That would go a long way towards understanding the "missing years"
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