[Avodah] missing years in Hebrew calendar

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah]

> *From:*Lisa Liel
> *Date:*Tue, 12 May 2015 08:17:09 -0500
> *Subject:*Re: [Avodah] missing years in Hebrew calendar 
> <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=M#MISSING%20YEARS%20IN%20HEBREW%20CALENDAR>

> Professor Levine posted about Rabbi Alexander Hool's book "The 
> Challenge of Jewish History". I don't agree with all of his 
> conclusions, and I'm embarrassingly late completing a review of the 
> book, but he posits the Persian line continuing even after Alexander 
> whupped Darius at Gaugamela. And in fact, the Parthian Empire, which 
> started only about 70-80 years after the Alexandrian conquest, claimed 
> descent from the Achaemenids of the Persian Empire. As did the later 
> Sassanids. Names like Ardashir are just Late Persian versions of the 
> Old Persian Artaxerxes.

*I don't see that there was every any follow-up on Rabbi Hool's 
theories. Lisa (or anyone)?*

KT, GS,
YGB
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