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  1 2,2 |             i.e. shortly after 836 B.C.), or to one after the Exile —
  2 2,2 |           anything from 500 to 200 B.C. has been suggested. ~ We
  3 3,1 |            of Jeroboam II (782-753 B.C. — IIKings 14:25).~ We shall
  4 3,1 |       middle of the eighth century B.C.~ ~
  5 3,3 |       middle of the eighth century B.C. In 745 B.C. Pul seized the
  6 3,3 |         eighth century B.C. In 745 B.C. Pul seized the throne of
  7 4,2 |      ravished the Near East in 765 B.C). and a total eclipse of
  8 4,2 |     eclipse of the sun (5:20 — 763 B.C. It was clear to Amos that
  9 5,2 |           years before Isaiah (740 B.C.). Like Amos his message
 10 5,7 |            Shalmaneser IV (782-773 B.C.) or even Shalmaneser V (
 11 5,7 |        even Shalmaneser V (726-722 B.C.), or whether he was an Assyrian
 12 6,4 |           year of king Uzziab, 740 B.C. (6:1, see below), when Isaiah
 13 6,4 |           nacherib’s invasion, 701 B.C., and to even a later date,
 14 6,5 |            seized the crown in 745 B.C., five years before Uzziah’
 15 6,5 | destruction of Nineveh itself (612 B.C.). ~ By 738 B.C. Rezin of
 16 6,5 |        itself (612 B.C.). ~ By 738 B.C. Rezin of Damascus, Hiram
 17 6,5 |       tributary to Assyria. In 735 B.C. Pekah, who had murdered
 18 6,5 |   Tiglath-Pileser for help. In 734 B.C. the Philistine cities were
 19 6,5 |       cities were captured. In 732 B.C. Damascus was captured and
 20 6,5 |          capture of Samaria in 722 B.C. by Shalmaneser, and the
 21 6,5 |           to Assyria, but from 715 B.C. Egyptian intrigues increasingly
 22 6,5 |        apparently scot free in 711 B.C. (ch. 20); it may be that
 23 6,5 |         dated between this and 701 B.C.~ When Sennacherib followed
 24 6,5 | Sennacherib followed Sargon in 705 B.C., most of the Assyrian empire
 25 6,5 |        deal with the west till 701 B.C., but then opposition quickly
 26 6,6 |            at Leontopolis from 160 B.C. to A.D. 72, and its builders
 27 6,0 |            us to a date before 701 B.C., the date of Sennacherib’
 28 6,1 |       Babylon and the Medes in 612 B.C., and these two countries
 29 6,1 |          led into captivity in 587 B.C. Some thirty years later
 30 6,1 |          Media attacked him in 550 B.C., but was betrayed into his
 31 6,1 |    betrayed into his hands. By 546 B.C. Cyrus had the whole of the
 32 6,1 |           attack on Babylon in 546 B.C. was quickly checked by the
 33 6,1 |        Babylon was attacked in 539 B.C. The king, Nabonidus, “the
 34 6,7 |            must be dated about 150 B.C. If we accept the older view
 35 6,7 |           by a MS earlier than 200 B.C. (cf. p. 124); that suggested
 36 6,7 |           at least as early as 400 B.C. before it could be rejected
 37 8,2 |        Josiah’s reformation of 621 B.C. The only arguments against
 38 8,2 |           reforms of Josiah in 627 B.C. (IIChron. 34:3; see p. 79)
 39 9,1 |            by the Assyrians in 663 B.C., and it must be before the
 40 9,1 |      actual fall of Nineveh in 612 B.C. The general religions situation
 41 9,1 |     earlier than Zephaniah (c. 627 B.C.), as does Kirkpatrick (Kirkpatrick,
 42 9,1 |            of Ashur-banipal in 627 B.C. We feel that the general
 43 9,1 |          supports a date round 625 B.C.~ Already in 626 B.C. Nineveh
 44 9,1 |           625 B.C.~ Already in 626 B.C. Nineveh had been attacked
 45 9,1 |          become independent in 626 B.C. under the Chaldean Nabopolassar,
 46 9,1 |          Nineveh, which feU in 612 B.C. Four years later the last
 47 9,2 |         the fall of Samaria in 723 B.C. (IIKings 17:6).~ 2. Jerome (
 48 10,2|           far apart as 701 and 330 B.C. have been proposed for him.
 49 10,2|         hardly be earlier than 612 B.C., the year of Nineveh’s fall,
 50 10,2|         may be even later than 605 B.C., when Nebuchadnezzar defeated
 51 10,2|           latest shortly after 626 B.C., when Babylon recovered
 52 10,2|        that a date as early as 701 B.C. had been suggested for the
 53 10,2|           from at least 626 to 605 B.C. This view is the basis of
 54 11,4|            born about the year 645 B.C. to­ward the end of the reign
 55 11,4|      slaves.~ His call came in 626 B.C. (1:2). If we compare Chron.
 56 11,4|          become effective till 621 B.C. (IIKings 22:3; IIChron.
 57 11,6|      destruction of Nineveh in 612 B.C., but the Greek historian
 58 11,6|     attributed to a time after 621 B.C., when Josiah’s reached its
 59 11,0|           When Nineveh fell in 612 B.C., the popular mind must have
 60 12,1|            IIChron. 21:16f, c. 843 B.C. If this is so, Obadiah is
 61 12,1|         capture of the city in 843 B.C., it is very hard to understand
 62 12,1|           by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C., when as we know from Ezek.
 63 12,1|           7-22, which is dated 605 B.C. (Jer. 46:If), brings no
 64 12,1|           of Jerusalem that in 586 B.C. We shall probably be safe
 65 12,2|            not be earlier than 586 B.C. we must still decide whether
 66 12,2|    perfects.~ In the sixth century B.C. there seems to have been
 67 12,2|            time of Malachi, c. 450 B.C., Edom may well have already
 68 12,2|          time of the return in 538 B.C. the South of Judaea as far
 69 12,2|           by John Hyrcanus, c. 125 B.C., thus opening the way for
 70 12,2|            of the Nabateans in 312 B.C., but they may have conquered
 71 13,2|            Ezekiel was born in 622 B.C. This means that he was over
 72 13,2|            age of twenty-five (597 B.C.), he was taken as captive
 73 13,3|           the height of summer 592 B.C., Ezekiel was transported
 74 13,3|        have been written after 200 B.C. “when the canon of the Prophets
 75 13,3|         the prophetic canon by 200 B.C. is merely a statement of
 76 14,1|    national independence until 142 B.C. The Jew who was not interested
 77 14,2|         conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. was only an incident in
 78 14,2|          death in the field in 530 B.C. Most of the short reign
 79 14,2|         Cambyses, his son (530-522 B.C.) was spent in the conquest
 80 14,2|         reign of Darius I (522-486 B.C.) that the Persian empire
 81 14,5|           Temple only began in 521 B.C. and that it was done mainly
 82 14,5|        cannot date Ezra before 400 B.C. at the earliest, it seems
 83 15,2|           third not later than 450 B.C.~ 4) This is much as the
 84 15,2|           Alexander the Great (330 B.C.), some putting portions
 85 15,2|            times right down to 100 B.C (So HDB, article Zechariah,
 86 15,2|        closed at the latest by 200 B.C. and that the LXX translation
 87 15,2|           made between 200 and 150 B.C. That they were not officially
 88 16,2|            the LXX (second century B.C.; though not the later added
 89 16,2|           date not much before 450 B.C., shortly before the reforms
 90 17,2|        form was produced about 168 B.C (For the usual modern view
 91 17,2|        then from the third century B.C. onward was the man to act
 92 17,2|        Daniel to the fifth century B.C., it should be clear that
 93 17,3|           Alexander the Great (332 B.C.)” (Driver, LOT, p. 508.).
 94 17,3|       written in the fifth century B.C., nothing more than the bare
 95 17,4|            to or quoted before 140 B.C. The argument from silence
 96 17,4|       Antiochus Epiphanes (175-164 B.C.) as the proximate cause
 97 17,4|  translation (usually dated c. 140 B.C., but probably much earlier).
 98 17,6|            as such. The period 150 B.C. — A.D. 100 did produce a
 99 17,7|    Nebuchadnezzar’s victory in 605 B.C. at Carchemish, Jehoiakim
100 17,7|         the death of the king (562 B.C.). The impression created
101 17,7|       Cyrus conquered Babylon (539 B.C). Daniel was an old man
102 17,7|            dating from before 1400 B.C. His name is spelled Dani’
103 17,1|          the Book of Enoch (c. 100 B.C.) it is already clearly used
104 17,4|          but in the second century B.C. the resurrection hope, which
105 18,2|           of the fifteenth century B.C. discovered at Ras Shamra,