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Two further sabbatical years attested in practice: 136/135 from Josephus and 1 Maccabees 16, and 37/36 from the chronology of Herod's capture of Jerusalem.
In plain words
Two more sabbatical years are recorded as kept, in 136/135 and 37/36 BC, by witnesses who mention them in passing, with no stake in proving it. The seven-year cycle can be traced across centuries.
The mechanism
RELEASE, OBSERVED — the seven-year cycle is traceable across centuries by independent witnesses who had no interest in proving it ran.
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, Antiquities; 1 Maccabees 16; Wacholder's sabbatical chronology
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