THE GENTILE TIMES RECONSIDERED

Carl Olof Jonsson

Fourth Edition
Revised and Expanded


COMMENTARY PRESS • ATLANTA • 2004

 

Because of its subject matter, in this book Bible texts are generally quoted from the New World Translation (represented by the abbreviation NW), published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. Abbreviations for other translations of Biblical quotations, listed in the text or in the footnotes, are:

ASV American Standard Version
KJV King James Version
LXX Septuagint Version (Greek)
MT Masoretic text (Hebrew)
NAB New American Bible
NASB New American Standard Bible
NEB New English Bible
NIV New International Version
NKJV New King James Version
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
RSV Revised Standard Version
RV Revised Version

THE GENTILE TIMES RECONSIDERED

FIRST EDITION © 1983 by
Hart Publishers Ltd. of Lethbridge, Alta., Canada and Good News Defenders of La Jolla, CA, U.S.A. for Christian Koinonia International

SECOND EDITION © 1986
Published by Commentary Press, Atlanta, GA 30336

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED © 1998
Published by Commentary Press, Atlanta, GA 30336.

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED © 2004
Published by Commentary Press, Atlanta, GA 30336.

All rights reserved

Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN: 0-914675-07-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 86-70168

Contents    

       Foreword v
       Introduction 1
1     The History of an Interpretation 23
2     Biblical and Secular Chronology 72
3     The Length of Reigns of the Neo-Babylonian Kings 89
4     The Absolute Chronology of the Neo-Babylonian Era 153
5     The Seventy Years for Babylon 191
6     The “Seven Times” of Daniel 4 236
7     Attempts to Overcome the Evidence 283
         Appendix 312
            For Chapter 1 312
            For Chapter 2 314
            For Chapter 3 321
            For Chapter 4 332
            For Chapter 5 335
            For Chapter 7 353
            Indexes 382