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Nov. 16, 2005
methods of calculating this date is a verification of the soundness of the biblical
chronological data. Another result is that the only theory that can explain how these
numbers come out in exact agreement is that the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were
measured accurately over all the time that Israel was in its land and the Levitical priests
really did start counting the cycles when the people entered the land. Furthermore, that
entry must have been in 1406
BC
. It is now known that cultic practices of this sort were
written down in the ancient Near East, so that the laws of how to observe the Sabbatical
and Jubilee years must have been codified in writing at the time of their institution. No
reasonable source for these laws has ever been postulated besides the Book of Leviticus.
Therefore the Book of Leviticus was in existence in 1406
BC
. I have already had some
feedback on this conclusion, and no one was able to offer a reasonable alternative
explanation of the various facts just cited. The subject of the pre-exilic Sabbatical and
Jubilee years is a fruitful field of investigation, and I invite others to join me in pursuing
it.