Drafts by Yaohdah Ban Dor / יהודה בן-דור
The Seleucid Era remains problematic because there were apparently two different starting points ... more The Seleucid Era remains problematic because there were apparently two different starting points in two different calendar years. This has always implied the existence of two separate systems of year reckonings within the Seleucid empire but scholarly opinion has remained divided. This brief note attempts to elucidate the two eras and offer a new interpretation as to how and why they arose.
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Part II of this study presents evidence for a 13-year co-regency between Darius Hystaspes (509-47... more Part II of this study presents evidence for a 13-year co-regency between Darius Hystaspes (509-473 BCE) and his son Xerxes (486-465 BCE). The gap this downdating creates in the period before Darius Hystaspes became king is to be filled with the reigns of the kings he omitted from his idealized version of the Babylonian kinglist as discussed in Part I.
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The discovery of numerous fragments of the Book of Jubilees among the Qumran corpus sparked renew... more The discovery of numerous fragments of the Book of Jubilees among the Qumran corpus sparked renewed interest in the peculiar 364-day calendar advocated by the Jewish author of the work (ca. 200-150 BCE). This study demonstrates that embedded within the text are a set of precisely dated events which to the modern reader seem almost nonsensical, but they are put there to preserve the method by which the septenary calendar was intercalated. The calendar is therefore a practical one that was actually put into use. The study also contends that the calendar was the civil calendar of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. The PDF file is chapter one of work.
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The Seleucid Era remains problematic because there were apparently two different starting points ... more The Seleucid Era remains problematic because there were apparently two different starting points in two different calendar years. This has always implied the existence of two separate systems of year reckonings within the Seleucid empire but scholarly opinion has remained divided. This brief note attempts to elucidate the two eras and offer a new interpretation as to how and why they arose.
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This study in three parts aims to demonstrate that the king known from Jewish biblical texts as "... more This study in three parts aims to demonstrate that the king known from Jewish biblical texts as "Darius the Mede" is in fact an historical figure. He was installed king of Babylon by Cyrus the Great in 530 BCE and he ruled Babylonia down to 520 BCE. Identifying him has been hampered to a large degree due to an idealized king list tradition introduced by the Achaemenid king Darius Hystaspes and also because contemporary records in Babylonia naming the enigmatic Median ruler have been confused in modern times as records of his more famous Achaemenid namesake.
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Drafts by Yaohdah Ban Dor / יהודה בן-דור
Papers by Yaohdah Ban Dor / יהודה בן-דור