There, are, however, modern writers who claim that the Oracles in question were originally composed not in view of the Scythian, but of the Chaldean invasion of Palestine. So George Douglas (_The Book of Jeremiah_, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1903), who, while assigning Jeremiah’s call to 627, relegates the two visions and all the Oracles in the first part of the book to the years following Jehoiakim’s accession to the Jewish throne in 608; cp. Winckler, _Geschichte Israels_, I. pp. 112 f. and F. Wilke (_Alttestamentliche studien R. Kittel zum 60 Geburtstag dargebracht_, 1913), quoted by John Skinner, _Prophecy and Religion_, pp. 42 f. n. 2. This would be an easy solution but for the insuperable objections to it that the Oracles in question far more closely fit the Scythian, than the Chaldean, invasion; and that Jer. I. 2, as distinctly covers prophecies of Jeremiah in the days of Josiah as v. 3 does his prophesying under Jehoiakim. POSTSCRIPT. The date of Nineveh’s fall has hitherto been accepted as 607-606 B.C. But in July of this year (1923) Mr. C. J. Gadd described to the British Academy a Babylonian tablet, which dates the fall in the fourteenth year of Nabopolassar’s reign in Babylon. This year was 612 B.C., if it be right to reckon the reign from 626-25 B.C.; but as remarked above, p. 175, Nabopolassar became in that year officially not king but only viceroy. Dependent as I was on a newspaper summary of Mr. Gadd’s lecture I could therefore do no more than offer for the fall of Nineveh the alternative dates, 612 and 606; see above p. 175 and compare p. 162. Appendix II. NECOH’S CAMPAIGN (PP. 162, 163).