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Yossi Kenner's avatar

If you are talking about "Fixing the History Books" by Brad Aaronson, which I'm assuming is her brother, I remember that someone on talkreason.org wrote a response called "fixing the mind."

With Lisa, you can find David S Levene's (professor of classics) online.

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/missing-years-in-the-hebrew-calendar/

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Shaun's avatar

I actually had a brief email conversation years ago with historian David Levene (mentioned in a previous comment) about Hool's book. His comments:

1. Achashverosh linguistically has to be Xerxes, not Cambyses

2. Thucydides, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Isocrates, Hyperides all make clear that the Persians were not ruling alongside the Greeks but were in fact fighting the Greeks, they make very clear that Alexander the Great did not conquer the Persian Empire from Darius I, but from Darius III

3. We have Athenian archon lists that can also independently verify that chronology (Hool would say they got made up?)

Also kinda funny how Hool's defense of Seder Olam chronology completely invalidates the Kuzari argument, that nations can't falsify their own history

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