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