acceptance of this chronology was widespread among ancient rabbis, it was not universal: Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer, Midrash Lekach Tov, and numerous rishonim disagree with the chronology of Seder Olam Rabbah. The traditional Jewish date recognized by the rabbis as the "year of destruction" is approximately 165 years later than the accepted year of 587 or 586 BCE. This discrepancy is referred to as the "missing years". Details of rabbinic chronology According to the Talmud and Seder Olam Rabbah, the Second Temple stood for 420 years, with the years divided up as follows: 103 years (35 BCE–68 CE) = Herod's Dynasty. 103 years (138 BCE–35 BCE) = Hasmonean Dynasty. 180 years (318 BCE–138 BCE) = Grecian rule over Israel 34 years (352 BCE–318 BCE) = Persian rule while the Second Temple stood (not including additional years of Persian rule before the Temple's construction). The date of 318 BCE for the Greek conquest of Persia is evident from the Talmud, which implies that that Greek rule began six years before the beginning of the Seleucid era (which occurred in 312/11 BCE). (Note that in academic chronology, Alexander conquered the Persian empire between 334-330 BCE.) Seventy years passed between the destruction of the First Temple and the building of the Second Temple in the seventy first year, so construction of the Second Temple in 352 BCE implies that the First Temple was destroyed in 423 BCE. Similarly, Megillat Antiochus implies that the Second Temple was built in 352 BCE, and thus that the First Temple was destroyed in 423 BCE. The figure of 420 years is likely derived from the prophecy of seventy weeks in . The rabbis this passage interpreted as referring to a period of 490 years which would pass between the destructions of the First and Second Temple - 70 years between the Temples, plus 420 years of the Second Temple, starting in the 71st year after the destruction, though the passage can plausibly be interpreted in other ways. Proposed explanations If traditional dates are assumed to be based on the standard Hebrew calendar, then the differing traditional and modern academic dating of events cannot both be correct. Attempts to reconcile the two systems must show one or both to have errors. Missing years in Jewish tradition Scholars see the discrepancy between the traditional and academic date of the destruction of the First Temple arising as a result of Jewish