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Document Details : Title: When Was the First Temple Destroyed, According to the Bible? Author(s): AVIOZ, Michael Journal: Biblica Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Date: 2003 Pages: 562-565 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.84.4.3194492 Abstract : This article deals with the contradiction between 2 Kgs 25 and Jer 52 regarding the date on which the First Temple was destroyed. Comparing the descriptions of the destruction in Kings and in Jeremiah shows that the two descriptions were borrowed from a common third source. In our view, this common third source is better preserved in Jeremiah 52 than in 2 Kings 25. We therefore deduce that Jeremiah 52 preserves the more exact date of the Temple’s destruction: the tenth of Ab. This claim is based on the fact that the description of the destruction in Kings is in any case truncated, and is therefore likely that it contains the textual corruptions as opposed to Jeremiah. |
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