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Cronología y 607 a. E.C. · Claim record

En los mismos dos artículos en los que cuestiona a los historiadores clásicos, el canon de Tolomeo y las tablillas astronómicas, la organización establece 539 a.E.C. a partir de Diodoro de Sicilia, Heródoto, tablillas cuneiformes fechadas y una tablilla astronómica babilónica, BM 33066, que los catálogos de referencia describen como un texto de observación de datos lunares y planetarios, editada por los mismos especialistas y en la misma serie que el diario astronómico VAT 4956, y de la que el propio artículo dice que “contains some errors regarding the astronomical positions”.

Claim ID claim-chronology-539-rests-on-rejected-classesConcerns 1 de octubre de 2011Implicación fuerte
Implicación fuerte · 1 de octubre de 2011 Verificado

En los mismos dos artículos en los que cuestiona a los historiadores clásicos, el canon de Tolomeo y las tablillas astronómicas, la organización establece 539 a.E.C. a partir de Diodoro de Sicilia, Heródoto, tablillas cuneiformes fechadas y una tablilla astronómica babilónica, BM 33066, que los catálogos de referencia describen como un texto de observación de datos lunares y planetarios, editada por los mismos especialistas y en la misma serie que el diario astronómico VAT 4956, y de la que el propio artículo dice que “contains some errors regarding the astronomical positions”. The Watchtower, 1 de octubre de 2011electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.33066, 2026The Watchtower, 1 de noviembre de 2011The Watchtower, 15 de agosto de 1968

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La organización no aborda directamente esa tensión. Su postura es que los historiadores clásicos y las tablillas astronómicas pueden utilizarse cuando concuerdan con la cronología de la Biblia y cuestionarse cuando no lo hacen, porque 'the Bible clearly states that there was an exile of 70 years'.

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Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part One, box 'A Pivotal Date in History'”

1 de octubre de 2011 · p.28 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“The date 539 B.C.E. when Cyrus II conquered Babylon is calculated using the testimony of: Ancient historical sources and cuneiform tablets: Diodorus of Sicily ... Herodotus ... Cuneiform tablets show that Cyrus ruled Babylon for nine years before his death. ... Confirmation by a cuneiform tablet: A Babylonian astronomical clay tablet (BM 33066) confirms the date of Cyrus' death in 530 B.C.E.”

In the same article that questions classical historians, Ptolemy's canon and astronomical tablets, the organisation establishes its own pivotal date from two classical historians and a Babylonian astronomical tablet.

Fuente oficial

Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Read in full in the Watchtower Online Library text on 19 September 2026; the box is marked '[Box/Pictures on page 28]'. The credit line reads 'Tablet: (c) The Trustees of the British Museum'.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-ebl-bm33066, src-chr-e-w68-0815-absolute-539

Notes. The article also concedes of BM 33066 that 'this tablet contains some errors regarding the astronomical positions' while still using it.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-w11-1001-pivotal-539

Revisado por pares / académico Verificado

electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment BM.33066, “Catalogue record for the Cambyses year 7 astronomical text”

2026 · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

“Astronomical; observation text; lunar and planetary data for Cambyses year 7 (523/2 BC). LBAT 1477; Cam 400 ... Hunger and Sachs, ADART V, no. 55”

BM 33066 is the tablet the Watch Tower's 2011 article cites to confirm 539 BCE. The catalogue record shows it to be an astronomical observation text edited by the same scholars, in the same series, as the astronomical diary VAT 4956.

Fuente oficial Copia archivada o alternativa

Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. The eBL API record was downloaded and read on 19 September 2026; the description, museum (British Museum), accession number 1878,1107.4 and CDLI number P364231 were read from it.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-w11-1001-pivotal-539

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-ebl-bm33066

Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part Two”

1 de noviembre de 2011 · pp.22-28 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Clearly, much of the astronomical data in VAT 4956 fits the year 588 B.C.E. as the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar II. This, therefore, supports the date of 607 B.C.E. for Jerusalem's destruction-just as the Bible indicates.”

The organisation's positive case from the cuneiform record. It argues that the Babylonian chronicles are incomplete, that business tablets show discrepancies at reign transitions, and that thirteen sets of lunar positions on VAT 4956 match 588/587 BCE.

Fuente oficial

Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. The whole article was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read with page markers intact; the quotation is on page 27.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-w11-1001-part-one

Notes. Note 21, the authority for the claim that the lunar position in line 3 matches Nisanu 9 of 588 BCE, is present in the Online Library text and reads: “VAT 4956 reads on line three: ‘The moon stood 1 cubit [or 2 degrees] in front of ß Virginis.’ The previously mentioned analysis concluded that on Nisanu 9, the moon was 2°04ʹ in front of and 0° below the star ß Virginis. It was considered an exact match.” It names no external authority: “the previously mentioned analysis” is the organisation’s own, described in note 19 as having been made with the software TheSky6, the freeware Cartes du Ciel / Sky Charts and a US Naval Observatory date converter. No astronomer, publication or independent calculation is cited for it.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-w11-1101-part-two

Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

The Watchtower, “The Book of Truthful Historical Dates”

15 de agosto de 1968 · pp.488-494 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“The fixing of 539 B.C.E. as the year when this historical event occurred is based on a stone document known as the Nabonidus (Nabunaid) Chronicle.”

Under the heading 'THE ABSOLUTE DATE OF 539 B.C.E.', the article explains that an absolute date 'must be one where sacred and secular historical events coincide', and derives 539 BCE from a Babylonian chronicle, quoting it from Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, p. 306.

Fuente oficial

Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. The full article was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read with page markers intact; the quotation is on page 490.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-pd-1942-p11-nabonidus-cyrus, src-chr-e-ebl-bm35382

Notes. The article then says of 607: 'It is now a simple formula to determine when the seventy years began. One has only to add 70 to 537 to get 607.'

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-w68-0815-absolute-539

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