the city (acknowledged by Towner)33 but simply announces that the captivity will last seventy years. According to this view, the total number of years in the seventy sevens is incorrect. It is difficult to believe that the writer could have been so historically uninformed that he would lose track of over half a century (sixty-seven years). An interpretation that creates a historical inaccuracy should be rejected, at least if another reasonable one can be found. This view also understands that the