Dougg
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A year to me is one complete orbit of the earth around the sun. What is a year to you?


That is part of your problem. A Jewish year is not a complete orbit of the earth around the sun.

Jewish months are based on a lunar / solar calendar. A Jewish year can be anywhere from 353, 354, 355, 383, 384 or 385 days long. In the first century of the common era a new month was decreed when eye witnesses saw the edge (beginning) of a new moon.

So your mathematics simply don't fit into the equation (so to speak).
FYI, Titus was born in 39 CE per the modern calendar and he led the siege against Jerusalem in 70 CE. Titus attacked just after Passover on the 17th of Tammuz.

Daniel goes on to say (26)

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and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary


Titus did that, right? And Titus later became the "monarch."
He became the Roman Emperor until 79 CE.

Knowing this history now read Daniel 9:27

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27. And he will strengthen a covenant for the princes for one week, and half the week he will abolish sacrifice and meal- offering, and on high, among abominations, will be the dumb one, and until destruction and extermination befall the dumb one.


Daniel is speaking of the Roman Caesar, Titus. In the beginning the Romans pretended to stop the internal Hasmonean power struggle, but in the end they took over through their puppet rulers. From the Artscroll footnote:

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9:27 The Roman emperor would make a treaty with the Jewish nation for seven years, but for the second half of the term the Romans would violate that covenant and impede the Temple service. The mute abomination, i.e. a temple idolatry, was erected by the emperor Hadrian on the Temple Mount (Rashi).


The problem is with your calendar, Dougg. It wasn't a solar calendar, let alone the modern calendar. Hope that helps.

BTW, Titus is only one of a few "suspects" for the second anointed one. The term was used to speak of priests and kings. Some say the "second" anointed one in Daniel refers to the high priest (and thus a messiah) Yannai.

And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Genesis, 21:12