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Daniel's 70 weeks (part 7) BM32234 tablet - It was Artaxerxes I, not Xerxes I, who was killed by his son!

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This is the transcript for my Youtube video with the same title. This is part seven of my video series about Daniel 9’s seventy weeks prophecy . The death of Xerxes I was dated by historians on the 14th of Av , 465 BC which corresponds to August 2 Julian calendar or July 28 Gregorian calendar of that year. This was based on scholars’ interpretation of the astronomical tablet BM32234 which reports a lunar eclipse on the third month of Sivan in the same year a king supposedly named Xerxes was killed by his son on the 14th of the fifth month of Av. This eclipse was dated by historians on June 5, 465 BC , Julian calendar. And here is what the tablet has to say regarding this eclipse: At 18° … 40° onset, maximal phase and clearing. The garment of the sky was there. In the area of the 4 rear stars of Sagittarius it was eclipsed. The tablet mentioned 18° along with some unreadable text. The scholars who interpreted this astronomical observation did not or could not explain this part of t

The Biblical king Shishak is Seti I & not Shoshenq I, Egpytian chronology is 364 years too early!

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  In my previous video titled “ Redating the Ugarit eclipse to  April 29, 1011 BC requires lowering Egyptian chronology by 169 years ” I showed that astronomers and historians wrongly dated the Ugarit solar eclipse described in the KTU 1.78 astronomical tablet on May 3, 1375 BC . Correct and precise interpretation of the tablet would show that the April 29, 1011 BC solar eclipse is the right one instead   Ammurapi was the last king (circa 1215 BC to 1180 BC) of the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit who saw its destruction. He was a contemporary of Chancellor Bay of Egypt who rose to prominence and high office under Seti II , the fifth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt .  For quite an obvious reason, the KTU 1.78 astronomical text must have been written on or before the final year of the last king of Ugarit in 1180 BC and before the destruction of this city. However, the correct date of the Ugarit eclipse was April 29, 1011 BC , or 169 years later than 1180 BC. This means