Doug and DOTE:

And while you are rocking, maybe either of you can explain why any Jew should accept your view that the count of the weeks should begin during the reign of Artaxerxes, when Daniel himself (9:25) tells us what restore and build means vis-a-vis Jerusalem namely broad place and fosse and we know that there is no reason why these cannot precede the date you rely upon, and, in fact, evidence from Scripture and logic that they do, as I explained in detail above. So, even if you reject the etnachta, you have no justification to see the davar as from Artaxerxes rather than from Cyrus or Darius I. BTW, I wish you would stop maintaining that your view here is THE Christian view, since that is simply not true, as the article to which CBY linked and Jerome (who started the count at Darius I and saw the cut off mashiach as the last Hasmonean priest/king, NOT JC) prove.