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A sabbatical year attested as actually observed, with Alexander's remission recorded against it. It is the earliest of six independent attestations.
In plain words
A sabbatical year falls in 331/330 BC on the modern chronologies, and Josephus records Alexander remitting the Jews' tribute in the seventh year: the earliest of six witnesses. The seven-year release was not law on paper only; it ran.
The mechanism
RELEASE, OBSERVED — the fast cycle is not a paper statute. It ran, and the running is dated from outside the tradition that legislated it.
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a release
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD — Josephus; the sabbatical-year chronologies (Zuckermann, Wacholder)
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