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

En 1968 la organización describió el 5-6 de octubre de 539 a.E.C. como una ‘absolute date’, una fecha ‘proved reliable by secular history’, a partir de la cual ‘all the other dates in the Hebrew Scriptures can be calculated’; la obra de consulta posterior Perspicacia para comprender las Escrituras llama en cambio a ese mismo año un ‘pivotal point’.

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Contexto · 1 de mayo de 1968 Verificado

En 1968 la organización describió el 5-6 de octubre de 539 a.E.C. como una ‘absolute date’, una fecha ‘proved reliable by secular history’, a partir de la cual ‘all the other dates in the Hebrew Scriptures can be calculated’; la obra de consulta posterior Perspicacia para comprender las Escrituras llama en cambio a ese mismo año un ‘pivotal point’. The Watchtower, 1 de mayo de 1968The Watchtower, 15 de agosto de 1968Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, 1988

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The Watchtower, “Understanding Time a Help to True Worshipers”

1 de mayo de 1968 · p.268 · pars. 19-20 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“For calculating Hebrew Scripture dates, the absolute date of October 5 to 6 in the year 539 B.C.E. is essential. … From this date all the other dates in the Hebrew Scriptures can be calculated.”

The article defines absolute dates as “dates that have been proved reliable by secular history, actual dates of events that are also recorded in the Bible”, and attributes the fixing of 539 B.C.E. to “a record … of King Nabonidus, the father and coregent of King Belshazzar”.

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”).

Corroborado por. src-chr-o-w-1968-0815-absolute-date

Notes. Publication reference confirmed from the document’s own citation code, w68 5/1. Shows the earlier, stronger wording — “proved reliable by secular history” — later softened to “pivotal point” in Insight.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-o-w-1968-0501-absolute-date

Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

The Watchtower, “The Book of Truthful Historical Dates”

15 de agosto de 1968 · p.490 · pars. 11-12 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“One must first measure back in time across the gulf that separates the present from the ancient Biblical record of the past, to a stationary point in history, to a fixed date of the past, to an absolute date, if you please. … One such fixed or absolute date is in connection with the events recorded in the fifth chapter of Daniel, verses one to thirty-one. … The year was 539 B.C.E. on the Gregorian calendar, four years after the Buddhist Era began in India.”

An article in the series that also produced the 1975 expectation. It defines an absolute date as one “where sacred and secular historical events coincide and are linked in perfect agreement with current methods of measuring time distances”.

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”).

Corroborado por. src-chr-o-w-1968-0501-absolute-date, src-chr-o-it1-chronology-pivotal-539

Notes. Publication reference confirmed from the document’s own citation code, w68 8/15.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-o-w-1968-0815-absolute-date

Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, “Chronology”

1988 · pp.458-459 · under “From Human Creation to the Present” · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Another date that can be used as a pivotal point is the year 539 B.C.E., supported by various historical sources as the year for the overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus the Persian. (Secular sources for Cyrus’ reign include Diodorus, Africanus, Eusebius, and Ptolemy, as well as the Babylonian tablets.)”

The article explains that a pivotal date must be “a date in history that has sound basis for acceptance and that corresponds with a particular event recorded in the Bible”, and reasons that Cyrus’ decree was issued by the winter of 538 or spring of 537 B.C.E., allowing the exiles to reach Jerusalem “by the seventh month (Tishri, or about October 1) of 537 B.C.E.”

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Full article fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the quotation and the page were confirmed against the text and its embedded page markers. Insight on the Scriptures is undated on the Online Library; the 1988 publication year is the work’s own imprint date.

Corroborado por. src-chr-o-w-2011-1001-pivotal-539

Notes. Insight calls 539 BCE a “pivotal point”, not an “absolute date”; the earlier “absolute date” wording belongs to the 1968 Watchtower articles recorded separately. It names Ptolemy among its supports.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-o-it1-chronology-pivotal-539

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