https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_(Jewish_calendar)
If traditional dates are assumed to be based on the standard Hebrew calendar, then the differing traditional and modern academic dating of events cannot both be correct. Attempts to reconcile the two systems must show one or both to have errors
the lack of agreement doesn't mean anything
ReplyDeleteif there were books of history that Chazal or Jewish historians used, there is no guarantee they were absolute
also, before the CE, nobody was counting backwards in BCE terms. even CE itself might not be exact.
and even the date of first hurban has different versions:
2 Kings 25:8
ח וּבַחֹדֶשׁ
הַחֲמִישִׁי, בְּשִׁבְעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ--הִיא שְׁנַת תְּשַׁע-עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה,
לַמֶּלֶךְ נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּר מֶלֶךְ-בָּבֶל: בָּא נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן
רַב-טַבָּחִים, עֶבֶד מֶלֶךְ-בָּבֶל--יְרוּשָׁלִָם.
8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon,
unto Jerusalem.
but look at Yirmiyahu 52:
יב וּבַחֹדֶשׁ
הַחֲמִישִׁי, בֶּעָשׂוֹר לַחֹדֶשׁ, הִיא שְׁנַת תְּשַׁע-עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה,
לַמֶּלֶךְ נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר מֶלֶךְ-בָּבֶל--בָּא, נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן
רַב-טַבָּחִים, עָמַד לִפְנֵי מֶלֶךְ-בָּבֶל, בִּירוּשָׁלִָם.
12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of
Babylon, into Jerusalem;
יג וַיִּשְׂרֹף אֶת-בֵּית-יְהוָה, וְאֶת-בֵּית הַמֶּלֶךְ; וְאֵת
כָּל-בָּתֵּי יְרוּשָׁלִַם וְאֶת-כָּל-בֵּית הַגָּדוֹל, שָׂרַף בָּאֵשׁ.
13 and he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great man's house, burned he with fire.
But Chazal hold by 9th of Av - somewhere between these dates, or even ignoring the version in Sefer Melachim.