The second problem has to do with Young’s methodology for utilizing the rabbinic materials. Young admits rabbinic calculations were inaccurate, noting, for example, “rabbinical calculation methods were not capable of correctly calculating that there were forty-nine years between Josiah’s eighteenth year and Ezekiel’s vision,” and yet he argues that their traditions regarding the Jubilee are correct. Young accepts as historical the rabbinic traditions that support his argument, while ignoring the