Online review (no journal of publication stated), “Review of Rolf J. Furuli, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian Chronology, Volume II (Oslo: Awatu Publishers, 2nd ed., 2008)”
“As for someone adding the numbers 37 and 38, there is no way of successfully adding cuneiform writing to a dried tablet. ... I state that the accusation is utterly groundless”
Hermann Hunger, co-editor of the standard edition of the astronomical diaries, responds in detail to the argument of Rolf Furuli, a Witness and former lecturer in Semitic languages at Oslo, that VAT 4956 supports 588/587 rather than 568/567 BCE and that the tablet may have been altered. Hunger also grants Furuli's general point that truth is not decided by 'the consensus of the majority of scholars'.
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Provenance and verification note for Online review (no journal of publication stated), Review of Rolf J. Furuli, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian Chronology, Volume II (Oslo: Awatu Publishers, 2nd ed., 2008)
Confidence note. The full review was fetched and read on 19 September 2026 and the quoted words read in context. It states the reviewer's name and city but names no journal, volume or pages, and it is hosted on a partisan website; no peer-reviewed publication of this text was located. Treat it as an authoritative specialist's signed opinion, not as a peer-reviewed citation.
Scan provenance. Hosted on kristenfrihet.se, a personal website maintained by Carl Olof Jonsson, a former Jehovah's Witness and author of The Gentile Times Reconsidered.
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Notes. The review also reports that F. R. Stephenson and D. M. Willis, evaluating the lunar data in Under One Sky (Muenster, 2002), concluded that the date 568/7 BC can be 'confidently affirmed'.
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