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Poll: You tell me, was it 587 BCE or 586 BCE?

by Christian Brady|Published February 4, 2009|6 comments

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Sam Harrelson
February 4, 2009, 3:34 pm

I love that your question about this on Twitter a couple of days back is ranking higher than a Wikipedia page!

http://skitch.com/samharrelson/bdtsp/586-or-587-bce-google-search

Oh, and 587.

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- Chris Brady Post author
  February 4, 2009, 3:45 pm
  
  Now THAT is the measure of success! Thanks for posting this Sam:
  
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Chris Brady Post author
February 4, 2009, 3:52 pm

By the way, this discussion from the b-Hebrew list that comes up in the Google search is actually pretty good.

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Beth
February 4, 2009, 4:11 pm

So… the question is… to believe Wikipedia (587 BCE) or the Jewish Virtual Library (586 BCE)? When I entered your question in Google search, it gave me http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/The_Temple.html as the first ranked page.

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- Chris Brady Post author
  February 4, 2009, 4:53 pm
  
  Coincidentally that follows the scholarship in that older works say 586 (Telushkin as cited by JVL) and more recent scholarship that uses 587 (Wiki).
  
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Bryan Bibb
February 4, 2009, 5:11 pm

All of my student handouts say 587/586 BCE. Don’t even get me started about Solomon’s date.

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