The Watchtower, “Understanding Time a Help to True Worshipers”
“For calculating Hebrew Scripture dates, the absolute date of October 5 to 6 in the year 539 B.C.E. is essential. … From this date all the other dates in the Hebrew Scriptures can be calculated.”
The article defines absolute dates as “dates that have been proved reliable by secular history, actual dates of events that are also recorded in the Bible”, and attributes the fixing of 539 B.C.E. to “a record … of King Nabonidus, the father and coregent of King Belshazzar”.
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Nota de confiança. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”).
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Notes. Publication reference confirmed from the document’s own citation code, w68 5/1. Shows the earlier, stronger wording — “proved reliable by secular history” — later softened to “pivotal point” in Insight.
Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-chr-o-w-1968-0501-absolute-date