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Skickat:                           Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:54 AM

Till:                                  'A. No Malee'

Ämne:                             Do you like it better now?... I have an important question to you RE your email: A couple of comments on your VAT 4956 page - Thanks ever so much for pointing me in the right direction! I really needed that!!!

 

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Written with a [tiny] beginning on the Fourth Day [of the week]

before the 6^th of the 7 Sabbaths and

the fortieth day of the fifty being reckoned towards the Day of Sabbaths (!) aka. Pentecost,

the annual feast day designated by our Creator for a reminder of all God’s Sabbaths;

 

the 27 day of month #2, Zif 27

in the 5930^th year, more or less, following the beginning recorded in Genesis 1

and in the 2026^th year following the beginning recorded in Luke 1:26-33

 

[Wednesday, the 3^rd day of the week, May 12 in the 2010^th year of Caesar Tiberius.]

 

 

 

 

Dear Mr[s?] A. No Malee,[1]           ;=)

 

Thank you ever so much for your feedback re my VAT 4956 page!  I always value feedback, most especially feedback that may help me remedy any errors of mine, or such feedback as in any other way may help make things more clear to any or all of us. Thanks again! Indeed, your feedback did both… and more! Thanks!  Thanks!      Thanks!!!

 

And thanks for jogging my memory re that VAT 4956 and my study of it! Indeed, it has been quite some time since I did that study and it is good for me to bring these items into memory and thoroughly review and revise my prior findings with an eye to any errors I’ve made, for instance as suggested by your recent email…  If you stay with me you’ll realize how your email is being effective towards correcting some important preconceived ideas I’ve had. Indeed, perhaps you’ll find that you’re having some of the same species???

 

Please feel free to send me any additional feedback that you wish!

 

 

Re “many of the anomalies…”

The most important question, to me, that I have for you is this one re your statement “Beginning the new year a day earlier will resolve many of the anomalies you see, I think.” If you would please specify for me what species of “anomalies” you are referring to, while also providing for me a representative sampling of such “anomalies,” such that I can be sure not to misunderstand you and such that I may learn and grow in my own understanding of the reality that now is, and that was, likewise, in times past? If you’ll please accommodate me by answering the above question I’ll be very happy indeed. Thanks in advance! – For instance, re the “anomalies” you’re thinking of, are they directly associated with VAT 4956, or are they associated primarily with historical events of that time, that is, outside of VAT 4956 itself and the observations there recorded?

 

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Re your primary observation re the evening of April 22 vs. April 23, 568 BCE.

No doubt you are aware of the Scripture rule re beginnings of months being dependent upon an actual real time observation of the new moon crescent, that is, in contradistinction to a more or less certain predictable visibility of the same at the end of the 29^th day of any lunar month? Accordingly, you will no doubt also be aware of the fact that all it takes, for the beginning of any given month to be delayed until a default beginning at the end of the 30^th day of the prior month, is inclement weather, such that no certain actual observation is being made at the end of the 29^th day? You are well aware of this rule, are you not?

 

As based for instance upon NASA’s Phases of the Moon tables for that year (-567 = 568 BCE) it appears almost certain that, as you’ll certainly agree, the New Moon crescent was indeed potentially visible, weather allowing, in the evening of April 22, 568 BCE. The only question remaining then, is this: Did the weather allow for that observation to actually happen or not? What facts are borne out by the record we know of as VAT 4956, that is, re an actual observation, or not, on that 29^th day referenced by you as “day 0 of Month I (day 29 of Month XII₂) was April 21/22?” Depending upon our answer to this last prior question will be also, as you’ll agree?, the validity of your statement “logically day 1 of Month I would be April 22/23…”

 

If our only problems pertain to such “anomalies” as we may seem to perceive within the VAT 4956 record itself, then all we have to address is our own interpretation and understanding of VAT 4956. In so doing we must, of course, be very careful indeed not to rely so much upon our own preconceived ideas, as based upon today’s schools of thought, that we blame any apparent problem upon the authors of VAT 4956 while forgetting the proverbial three fingers pointing back to ourselves and to our own flawed schools of thought and the associated scholars and “authorities.” Indeed, could it be that we, you or I, are reading more into “Sachs and Hunger” than they themselves intended by their words? Are we allowing ourselves to be subject to the natural laws pertaining to the whispering of the neighbors and to the gossip being brought from one generation of scholars and church fathers to the next, or else are we being careful always to fall back upon nothing less than a careful study of the best available primary facts themselves?

 

Well, these are considerations that I do my best in always keeping uppermost in my mind while studying issues such as are being brought up in your recent mail to me. So back to the questions you brought up re my “footnote #3” of this [now updated] web page of mine…

 

Did you notice my footnote #1 and the highlighted words there quoted from the translator of VAT 4956? That is, the words re the beginning of each month as indicated on VAT 4956 itself? Yes, indeed, per that note of the translator, and per his translation, “Year 37 of Nebukadnezar, king of Babylon. Month I. (the 1^st of which was identical with) the 30^th (of the preceding month,)” the end of the 29^th day of the preceding month should indeed be, as you say, the beginning of Nebuchadnezzar’s 37^th year. But, the question before us now is, Is this translation itself an anomaly? Is this translation consistent with the remainder of the facts being brought to us by VAT 4956? If you study the actual position of the New Moon, relative to the Bull, on the evenings of the 22^nd and 23^rd, you’ll probably notice with me that only on the 23^rd is it true that “the moon became visible behind the Bull of Heaven,” or isn’t that so? (Please press each of the links within that last quote to see the relative positioning of the Moon and the Bull on the evening of the 23^rd! The corresponding positions for April 22 may be seen under the links of these words of mine “one day later than I would have anticipated.”)… … …  As a late afterthought I might add, that, if my point here re the moon’s position relative to the Bull is correct, than why is it that no reference is given also to the obvious proximity to Venus, which on April 23 was no more than 8+ degrees from the moon? Wouldn’t this be a third instance of “one god… [being] seen with the other?” That is, as referenced in line 4, obverse, and in line 16, on the reverse side of VAT 4956? But if so, then the word “behind” in “behind the Bull” must be an erroneous translation, must it not? Yet, in favor of April 22 would also be that, otherwise meaningless, translator’s Comment re line 1, that is, “The last sign visible can be any number from 14 to 18…” For isn’t it true that if April 22 is indeed the correct date, then it would make sense also to apply the number “14,” that is, as in “14 degrees between the setting sun and the moon…” (whereas the corresponding distance for April 23 would be 26 degrees…) And perhaps too, those bracketed words of the translator, “[sunset to moonset:] ….[….][2],” would gain some meaning, that is, reminiscent of those initially enigmatic words of line 4, obverse, and of line 16, reverse side of the clay table, that is, the words “sunrise to moonset: 4^o” etc.? (Cf. my new footnotes to line 4, obverse side of the clay tablet!) Well, so much for afterthought…

 

An even more precise – and much less questionable – observation of VAT 4956 is brought to us by line 10 re Mars in Praesepe, that is, within the Beehive Cluster, which line 10 states, re Month #2, that: “The 3^rd, Mars entered Praesepe[3]. The 5^th, it went out (of it).” Looking at those links there can be no question, so far as I can see, but that the 3^rd day of Month #2 is identical with the evening of May 25, etc.. It follows that the 1^st day of Month #2 began on May 23, or isn’t that so?

 

But, per line 8, “Month II, the 1^st (of which followed the 30^th of the preceding month),” it seems quite clear to me that the 30^th day of Month #1 was none other than the day beginning with the evening of May 22, 568 BCE. From this it follows that the 1^st day of Month #1 must be none other than the day beginning with the evening of April 23^rd. Given that April always has 30 days, I can see no way out of this but to conclude that Month #1 of Nebuchadnezzar’s 37^th year began with the evening of April 23^rd, 568 BCE, can you?

 

There we go!!! Once I discovered the certain and confirmed reference point found in line 4, obverse, re the 14^th day, I found something solid to stand upon re the beginning of the 1^st month. This finding being wholly in accord with your suggestions as per your email to me, it remains for me to thank you from the bottom of my heart for pointing me effectively in the right direction such that I could correct this rather serious error of mind re VAT 4956! Thanks!   Thanks!      Thanks ever so much!

 

And besides that, there were quite a number of other details that I’ve corrected or improved upon over and above my prior work on VAT 4956. Thanks again! This was really needed!  -  And yet, I realize that there is yet much work for me to do before I’ve completely covered all of the data available for me to consider on VAT 4956. Much to be excited about and to enjoy when time allows!

 

 

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Upon reviewing again your below email after having extensively reviewed and revised my prior work – thanks to this your incentive! – I am finally understanding the details given in your email and I appreciate a little of your insight into these matters. Thanks for sharing with me of that which you’ve come to know and understand re these important things!

 

I notice your last bit of information re line 12 obverse and the “20°” there referenced… Per the method you’re using, you are getting: “Time difference: 91 minutes or 22.75° - this is acceptably close to the tablet's 20°…” You may perhaps appreciate that, by measuring, at the time of sunset, the angular distance between the Sun and the Moon, you’ll arrive at a value even closer to the “20°” provided by VAT 4956… You’ll notice that I found that angular distance being 19° 35’! That’s even more “acceptably close,” isn’t it?!!

 

You’ll notice too, that, albeit I agree with you that in this instance, of the Akkadian word behind the translator’s word, “thick” may well be referencing, as you say the “illuminated fraction of 3.1%,” yet, in the remainder of VAT 4956 it seems to me that that interpretation is inconsistent with the facts and that the word translated “thick” is more likely a reference to the overall size of the Moon, that is, to its nearness to the Earth. Would you agree with that?

 

I might add that I’ve yet to find and discover that reference of yours “ADT Vol. I…”

 

 

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May the peace of the Creator rest over your family and home! And by the way, in case you are interested in such things?... Did you know that on the Seventh-day Sabbath, beginning with the oncoming darkness this Friday evening May 21, 2010, is the Torah given “Day of Sabbaths,” an annual Feast for remembering all of the Creator’s Sabbaths: Sabbaticals as well as the weekly Seventh-day Sabbaths, and, not to forget, the year of Jubilee? All of which Sabbaths are granted us for the prime purpose of pointing all of us in the direction of ultimate freedom under none but our loving Father in heaven, our Creator and Redeemer!

 

 

You have indeed been most helpful to me re these matters! Thanks again!!! And please feel free to share with me any further thoughts, insights, or comments that you may have re these things… The thought comes to mind that per chance you’d be interested in some of my discoveries as published on this web page of mine, re things relating to the Book of Daniel, that is, to such things as relates primarily to the exact dating of events in those days?

 

 

 

Shalom,

 

Gunnar Anders Smårs Jr ©

 

 

PS. If you don’t mind?, I’ll be giving you credit for helping me along the way by placing a link to this correspondence of ours where appropriate. Please let me know any objection you may have to my doing so!

 

 

 

 

Från: Ann OMaly [mailto:anannomaly@yahoo.com]
Skickat: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:11 AM
Till: TreeOfLifeTime@gmail.com
Ämne: A couple of comments on your VAT 4956 page

 

Hi Mr. Smårs,   I happened upon your page by accident. Unfortunately I didn't have time to look at it thoroughly (need to remedy later) but a couple of things leapt out at me.   You began the Nisan 1, 568 BCE on the evening of April 23, according to footnote 3. Are you unaware that the new month began on the evening of April 22? After all, Sachs and Hunger themselves indicate that this is when the month began:   "year 37 I 0=XII2 29                                          Apr 21/22"   If day 0 of Month I (day 29 of Month XII2) was April 21/22, then logically day 1 of Month I would be April 22/23.   And the new crescent was visible then.   Starting on April 22 will eventually help with the 'discrepancy' at footnote 21 regarding the lunar three measurement of 20° on line 12. As you may be aware, the Babylonians measured lag-times between moonrise/set and sunrise/set at particular times of the month. In later tablets they came to be known as 'lunar sixes' (a term coined, if I remember correctly, by Sachs - there's more information about them in the introduction to their ADT Vol. I). In this tablet, however, there are only 'lunar threes' - day 1 sunset-moonset (NA); mid-month sunrise-moonset (NA [again]); and toward the end of the month, the last morning crescent moonrise-sunrise (usually designated as KUR but the sign is omitted on the tablet). Anyway, according to the program I used (Sky View Cafe), I get this result relating to your footnote 21/line 12:   Simanu 1 begins at sunset June 20, 568. The moon was behind (east of) Cancer, and its crescent had quite a ‘thick’ illuminated fraction of 3.1%.   Moonset: 20.37 Sunset: 19.06 Time difference: 91 minutes or 22.75° - this is acceptably close to the tablet's 20°.   Beginning the new year a day earlier will resolve many of the anomalies you see, I think. Of course, (what's likely to be) the scribal or copyist errors on lines 3 and 14 will remain.   Hope this is some help.    Regards, Ann

 

 

 

 

 

 

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