[Avodah] missing years in Hebrew Calendar

[Marty Bluke via Avodah]

R' YGB writes:
"I cannot believe TABC allowed this to be published as is. /Shreklach!/"

Should we just bury our heads in the sand and not address these kinds of
issues? Its very hard to hide information today, what happens when these
kids get to college and find about the missing 165 years. What are they
going to think?

The fact is that Rabbi S. Schwab found this discrepancy a “truly vexing
problem” and wrote that the historical chronological dating:

"“can hardly be doubted for they appear to be the result of painstaking
research by hundreds of scholars and are borne out by profound erudition
and by ever increasing authoritative evidence ... we are compelled to admit
that the Bayis Sheni must have existed for no less than 586 years.”
(Hakira A Y2K Solution to the Chronology Problem).

If we don't address these kinds of questions (torah and science, the
documentary hypothesis, etc.) then the implication that will be drawn by
many people is that we don't have answers and we know what happens then.

The Seforim blog (http://seforim.blogspot.com/2015/01/blog-post.html)  not
long ago reviewed a Sefer by R' Amnon Bazak, Ad Hayom Hazeh, which deals
 with many of the the issues that academia brings up related to Tanach. Are
his answers compelling? Many times not. But at least he deals with the
issues. A commentator there made a very important point, for those who have
been exposed to these questions, we need seforim like this that at least
attempt to deal with the issues raised and not simply bury our heads in the
sand.
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