A Reply to Beckman's Defense of Thiele's Chronology

Part 1 -Jewish Sources for the Chronology of the Divided Kingdom

For most of the past 1,900 years, Christian and Jewish historians agreed quite closely on the chronology of the Divided Kingdom. While the Jews chopped out two centuries from the Achaemenid Persian Empire period, to make Daniels’ 70 weeks point to Simon Bar Kochba, Jewish and Christian sources were nearly unanimous that about 390 years had passed from …