J. A. Moorman - Pastor: Jack Moorman

CHAPTER 1: SEVEN CHRONOLOGIES COMPARED
3. Would not this rebuilding be premature and a breach upon the Lord's declaration that the
land would be "desolate to keep sabbath for 70 years" (II Chr.36:21)?
4. After finishing the work in only 52 days (Neh.6:15), it would be strange in the extreme to wait
51 years to dedicate the wall (Neh.12:27-47).
5. Even given Nebuchadnezzar's madness, how could there be a king (a co-regent) who reigned
over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia while Nebuchadnezzar was still king? How could
this king approve the rebuilding of the walls his master destroyed only 23 years before? Why do
we not read elsewhere about such a co-regency?
Enormous difficulties stand in the way of placing Nehemiah's wall-building in the Babylonian
rather than in the Persian period, and I am not aware of any serious attempt to develop this
theory further. It is not workable.
A second chronologist who departs from the traditional in both divides but not in the radical
way of Bullinger and has produced a work of vast research very popular during the earlier part
of the 20th century is -
7. MARTIN ANSTEY
The Romance of Bible Chronology was published in 1923 and dedicated to his close friend, the
famous G. Campbell Morgan.
A number of the pre-millennial Bible teachers of that generation were influenced by Anstey.
Shortly after C. I.Scofield's 1917 study Bible was published he wrote very favorably of Anstey's
views. However, this approval did not affect the dates in later printings and editions of the
Scofield Bible and Ussher's dates continued to be used. 62
Whether or not one is persuaded by the case Anstey builds for a longer period for the Judges
and a shorter for the Persian Kingdom, his devotion to Scripture and ready access to the British
Museum items make this work one of the most valuable on the subject. When Britain and
London ruled the world, the archaeological treasures of ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia,
Greece and Rome were brought into her museums. The British Museum in London is by far the
world's greatest repository of these treasures. Anstey, from a Bible-believing standpoint, made
full use of this.
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