<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><br><div dir="ltr">I am listening to shiurim (TIM) by Rabbi Leibrag on the days of Ezra .<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He points to another reason why the dating of Chazal is not reasonable. According to</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Olam Rabba Ezra comes to EY the year after the second Temple is finished,</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Right before we have Zerubavel, Yeshoshia Cohen Gadol, Chagai, Zechariah and Malachi .</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So two or three years later Ezra comes (perhaps Nechamia before) and they don't seem to have any interaction with all these major leaders. Furthermore, Ezra is overwhelmed by the mixed marriages we don't seem to have been an immediate problem even if descendants of Yehoshua Cohen Fadol did intermarry,</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is in addition to the problems of outside history which seems to match the names in Ezra and lists of high priests etc.</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He gives one reason for ghazal that according to their dating Yetziat Mizrayim is exactly 1000 years before the Seleucid calendar and so one who counts in the Greek calendar is also using a Jewish calendar. More reasons to come in later lectures<br clear="all"></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div></div></div>
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