1.
Introduction
1.1.
Significance to Jehovah's Witnesses
1.2.
Calendar Basics
2.
Standard Babylonian Chronology
2.1.
Uruk King List
2.2.
Babylonian Chronicles
2.2.1.
Akitu Chronicle
2.2.2.
Early Years of Nabopolassar Chronicle
2.2.3.
Fall of Nineveh Chronicle
2.2.4.
Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle
2.2.5.
Nabonidus Chronicle
2.3.
Business Tablets
2.3.1.
Errors and Corrections
2.4.
Adad-Guppi Stele
2.5.
Hillah Stele
2.6.
Egyptian Chronology
2.6.1.
BM 33041
2.6.2.
Stelae
2.6.3.
Ancient Historians
2.7.
Ptolemy's Royal Canon
2.8.
Astronomical Texts
2.9.
Timeline
3.
Judean Chronology
3.1.
Biblical Evidence
3.1.1.
2 Kings
3.1.2.
Jeremiah
3.1.3.
2 Chronicles
3.1.4.
Daniel
3.2.
Issues Synchronising Babylonian and Judean Chronology
3.3.
Principles of Chronology
3.4.
Solutions to the Judean Chronology
3.4.1.
Tadmor's Chronology
3.4.2.
Jones's Chronology
3.4.3.
Malamat's Chronology
3.4.4.
Thiele's Chronology
3.4.5.
Horn's Chronology
3.4.6.
Albright's Chronology
3.4.7.
Hyatt's Chronology
3.4.8.
Young's Chronology
3.4.9.
Watch Tower Judean Chronology
3.5.
Watch Tower Interpretation of Daniel 1:1
4.
Watch Tower Chronology
4.1.
Jeremiah’s 70-Year Prophecy
4.1.1.
Key Scriptures
4.1.2.
Reign of Cyrus II
4.1.3.
Return of the Exiles
4.1.4.
Accuracy of the Prophecy
4.2.
History of the Watch Tower Chronology
4.2.1.
Russell and Barbour (1875+)
4.2.2.
The Truth Shall Make You Free (1943)
4.2.3.
The Kingdom Is At Hand (1944)
4.2.4.
The Watchtower 1949
4.2.5.
The Watchtower 1952
4.2.6.
The Watchtower 1955
4.2.7.
The Watchtower 1968
4.2.8.
The Watchtower 1971
4.3.
Criticism of Standard Babylonian Chronology
4.3.1.
Criticism of Ptolemy's Canon
4.3.2.
Criticism of the Business Tablet Record
4.3.3.
Criticism of the Astronomical Texts
4.3.3.1.
Alternative Dating of VAT 4956
5.
Controversy
5.1.
Max Hatton
5.2.
Carl Olof Jonsson
5.3.
Raymond Franz
5.4.
Rolf Furuli
5.5.
Gérard Gertoux
6.
Appendix
6.1.
Letter Concerning VAT 4956 in the Watch Tower 2011
6.2.
Letter Concerning the Date of Josiah's Death
6.3.
Responses from Scholars to Watchtower Quotations
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