Re-initiation of 50 Yr Jubilee cycle (1 abr 517 ano antes da era comum – 1 abr 468 ano antes da era comum)

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Herod the Great and Jesus Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence by Gerard Gertoux

Since the Jubilee cycle was in relation to the worship organized from the temple, it seems logical to have this calendar begin with the dedication of the temple. Zechariah's text specifies that God approved the temple in Darius I's 4th year (Zc 7:1,5,14, 8:9-19), that is in 518/517.

...beginning of a new 50- year Jubilee cycle, from the 4th year of Darius (Zc 7:1-5) in 518 BCE.

First Jubilee celebrated, dated to Artaxerxes' 7th year, because Ezra's text mentions that in this year there was a tax exemption (Ezr 7:1,8,24) and a liberation of captives (Ezr 8:35). Jewish authorities agree that the count of Jubilees must start on this year233.
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Ezra 7

Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra...
8 ...came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
24 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

Ezra 8

35 At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

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Zechariah 7

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. 2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, 3 saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: 5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

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