Anti-Jewish Polemic: Julian of Toledo's 'Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age' (III)
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[For the prior two books of ‘Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age’, see here and here]. In the first two books of his De Comprobatione Sextae Aetatis, Julian of Toledo tried to show that the Old and New Testaments do not give any weight to the number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world with regards to the question of the coming of Christ. In this third and final book, he focuses on the issue of generations, the differences in chronology between the original Hebrew and Septuagint versions of the Old Testament/Tanakh (the Septuagint being its Koine Greek translation, named for 70 translators who reputedly worked on it), and the actual number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world. His main arguments can be summarised as follows:
Anti-Jewish Polemic: Julian of Toledo's 'Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age' (III)
Anti-Jewish Polemic: Julian of Toledo's…
Anti-Jewish Polemic: Julian of Toledo's 'Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age' (III)
[For the prior two books of ‘Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age’, see here and here]. In the first two books of his De Comprobatione Sextae Aetatis, Julian of Toledo tried to show that the Old and New Testaments do not give any weight to the number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world with regards to the question of the coming of Christ. In this third and final book, he focuses on the issue of generations, the differences in chronology between the original Hebrew and Septuagint versions of the Old Testament/Tanakh (the Septuagint being its Koine Greek translation, named for 70 translators who reputedly worked on it), and the actual number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world. His main arguments can be summarised as follows: