J. A. Moorman - Pastor: Jack Moorman

CHAPTER 1: SEVEN CHRONOLOGIES COMPARED
27. See Zechariah Fendel, Charting the Mesorah: Creation through Geonim, (New York:
Haskafah Publ.,1994), p.45.
28. For a list of various views see Simon Schwab, "Comparative Jewish Chronology", Dr Joseph
Breuer Jubilee Volume, (New York, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Publications Society,
Philipp Felheim Inc., 1962), p.187.
29. The Old and New Testaments connected to the History of the Jews, (Oxford: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1851), p.235.
30. Simon Schwab, p.182.
31. Ibid. p.188. Emphasis his!
32. Ibid. pp.190,191.
33. "Akiva", Encyclopedia Judaica, pp.488-492.
34. "Mishna", Encyclopedia Judaica, p.102.
35. "Yose ben Halafta", Encyclopedia Judaica, p.852.
36. Ibid. p.853.
37. Schwab, p.186.
38. Ibid. p.186.
39. Fendel, Charting the Mesorah, p.45.
40. "Bar Kokhba", Encyclopedia Judaica, p.230.
41. Ibid. p.230.
42. Ibid. p.231.
43. Ibid. p.231.
44. "Messiah", Encyclopedia Judaica, p.1410.
45. E.W.Bullinger The Companion Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1979.
46. Anstey, p.139, indicates Bullinger was influenced toward this view by a certain Lumen in his
book The Prince of the House of Judah.
47. Appendix 50 VII(12) in the Companion Bible clearly states this, but is contradicted in the
Summary which follows. This latter is certainly a typographical error.
48. Bullinger distinguishes between three overlapping seventy-year periods: the Servitude, the
Captivity, the Desolations. Each begins with a siege of Jerusalem.
49. The name given by Herodotus to the Persian king whom Bullinger believes to be the same
as Ahasuerus (The Mighty, Est.1:1), Artaxerxes (The Great King, Neh. 2:1), and Darius the
Median (the Restrainer, Dan.5:31).
50. By this reckoning, if Astyages is Darius the Median then he is only 21 years old at his
marriage to Esther, for he was 62 years old in 426 BC when Babylon fell to Persia
(Dan.5:31). And if in the 20th year of his reign (454) he permits Nehemiah to return, then
he would only be 14 years old in the first year of his reign when he married Vashti
(Appendix p.67). Herodotus says that Cyrus was 40 at the fall of Babylon, a factor which
agrees with Bullinger's count.
51. Appendix 57, p.80 states: "At the close of the Lydio-Median war 'Syannesis the Cilician and
Labynetus (or Nabonnedus) the Babylonian (identified by Humphry Prideaux - The Old
and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, 19th edn. Vol.I, p.82 note, and
pp.135,136 - with Nebuchadnezzar) persuaded Alyattes to give his daughter Aryenis in
marriage to Astyages, son of Kyaxares' (Herodotus I:74)." Bullinger identifies Aryenis with
Vashti, p.81.
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