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La chronologie et 607 av. n. è. · Claim record

Le véritable désaccord entre historiens au sujet de la destruction de Jérusalem porte sur le choix entre 587 et 586 av. n. è., soit une seule année, et tient à la question de savoir si Juda comptait les années de règne à partir de Tishri ou de Nisan. Un relevé a trouvé onze spécialistes de chaque côté. Aucune chronologie de référence de la période n’admet un écart de vingt ans.

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Contexte · mars 2004 Vérifié

Le véritable désaccord entre historiens au sujet de la destruction de Jérusalem porte sur le choix entre 587 et 586 av. n. è., soit une seule année, et tient à la question de savoir si Juda comptait les années de règne à partir de Tishri ou de Nisan. Un relevé a trouvé onze spécialistes de chaque côté. Aucune chronologie de référence de la période n’admet un écart de vingt ans. Source: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47/1, mars 2004Source: Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, 1956Source: The Watchtower, 1 octobre 2011

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : L’organisation le reconnaît : « Les ouvrages profanes signalent en général l’une ou l’autre date. Pour alléger le texte, nous mentionnerons dans cet article uniquement 587. »

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Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47/1, “When Did Jerusalem Fall?”

mars 2004 · pp.21-38 · Rodger C. Young · Evangelical Theological Society

“Although the Scriptures state that the end came in the fourth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, scholars are divided on whether this refers to 586 bc or 587 bc. Jeremy Hughes listed eleven scholars who preferred the first date and eleven who preferred the second.”

A survey of the scholarly disagreement about the year Jerusalem fell. The article's conclusion is that 'Jerusalem fell in the fourth month (Tammuz) of 587 bc'. The whole disagreement in the literature is between two adjacent years.

Note de provenance et de vérification for Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47/1, When Did Jerusalem Fall?

Note sur la fiabilité. The PDF was downloaded from the author's own site on 19 September 2026 and read. It carries the running header 'JETS 47/1 (March 2004) 21-38' and 'journal of the evangelical theological society'. The publisher's own copy on etsjets.org redirected and was not opened.

Corroboré par. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p30-37th-year

Notes. Young notes that the fixed points are the battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE and the capture of Jehoiachin in spring 597 BCE, both from Babylonian records.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chr-e-young-2004-jets

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Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, “Introduction: Egypt and Babylon”

1956 · p.30 · D. J. Wiseman · The Trustees of the British Museum, London

“a fragmentary text, B.M. 33041, which is a religious rather than a 'Chronicle' version of historical events in the thirty-seventh year of Nebuchadrezzar (568/7 B.C.)”

Discussing the Babylonian invasion of Egypt, Wiseman dates Nebuchadnezzar II's thirty-seventh year to 568/567 BCE on the basis of a tablet entirely independent of the astronomical diary VAT 4956.

Note de provenance et de vérification for Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, Introduction: Egypt and Babylon

Note sur la fiabilité. Read in the ETANA PDF on 19 September 2026; running head '30 CHRONICLES OF CHALDAEAN KINGS' immediately above. On the same page Wiseman dates the final siege of Jerusalem to '588-586 B.C.'

Provenance de la numérisation. Full scan of the British Museum volume hosted by ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives), an academic digital-library consortium. Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum, 1956.

Corroboré par. src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-line1

Notes. The same volume, on p. 30, refers to 'the siege of Jerusalem for a time in 588-586 B.C.', i.e. the mainstream range, not 607.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p30-37th-year

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The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part One”

1 octobre 2011 · pp.26-31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“So why do Jehovah's Witnesses hold to a date that differs from widely accepted chronology by 20 years? In short, because of evidence within the Bible itself.”

The organisation’s fullest modern statement of its case for 607 BCE. It opens by printing a reader’s question — “586 or 587 B.C.E. is generally accepted as the year of Jerusalem’s destruction. Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses say that it was 607 B.C.E.?” — and answers it. In its own words, in the summary box on page 31: “Secular historians usually say that Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 B.C.E.” The article rests its own date on a literal seventy-year exile ending in 537 BCE.

Note de provenance et de vérification for The Watchtower, When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part One

Note sur la fiabilité. The whole article was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read with the page markers (span class="pageNum") intact; the quotation falls between the markers for pages 26 and 27, that is, on page 26.

Corroboré par. src-chr-e-w11-1101-part-two

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chr-e-w11-1001-part-one

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