Talk:Missing years (Hebrew calendar)

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On of the few Haredi ("Ultra-Orthodox") voices who grappled with this problem was Shimon Schwab. Perhaps I ought to work his views into the relevant section, because he advances (and then effectively rejects) a theory that the years in question were deliberately removed from the Jewish calendar. JFW | T@lk 22:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Another Haredi who grappled with this problem is Chaim Dov Rabinowitz in his History of the Jews. He posits that on occasion a major governor was counted as a king and his reign added to the timeline. Thus the same years would be counted twice. I believe R' Shaul Shimon Deutch ( a haredi historian) of the Living Torah museum has the same view. I don't know if this holds up under modern Scholarship.My compliments on a very neutral and balanced article. An interesting twist on the anti-semitic approach entioned within is of R' Saadiah Gaon in emunot V' Deiot that "a certain nation has added 9 kings and 100 years to their calendaer in order to place the arrival of their saviour at the time of the destruction of the temple." (inexact quotation) Wolf2191 06:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)