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The second column states the number of days difference between 365.24... day calendar and the 364 day calendar, and for the mathematically challenged among us (me) the 3rd column states the same thing as the number of mean solar months (30.333333 days). So, anything close to 2.00 is "two"...

I used the BC and AM side by side out of deference to Jewish readers. I am conscious that Jews may get annoyed with Christians who come across as thinking they know more about pre-Christian history of Israel than they do. If I was a Jew it would irritate me, so by using their calendar I hope at leas...

Im following down your 'Solar Diff' column, and I can see how the Metonic adds 7 months over 19 years, and how I add 18 months over 49 years. However Im a bit lost at your "2 intercalated SS mos in 48 or 49 years"

Ged, I was misunderstanding where you were coming from with the calendar. So, if my take from an initial skim of the paper is correct, you think you have come up with the manner by which a 364 day calendar was kept in tune with the seasons. The paper has been downloaded & I will take a closer l...

That's me done but we can discuss some more if you like.

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This brings us to the second synchronisation. In addition to the 'week', the Bible reveals a 49-year Sabbatic cycle starting New Year, 1st of Abib, following the previous block of forty-nine. They would have intercalated months as explained using the short cycle, until it reached the 7th month of th...

When seven ‘weeks’ as described are spread over one Jubilee, a pattern of eighteen intercalary months appears that can be repeated indefinitely in each subsequent Jubilee cycle. Please examine the next diagram showing fifty years divided into blocks of seven. The seventh year (Sabbath) is indicated ...

I wonder if the results are not due to the usual waves and oscillations (the calculus ) found in complex applied mathematics. Lunar cycles are accurate over hundreds of years. I use Peter Meyers 'Hermetic Systems Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder' for converting dates between Lunar and Julian date...

Every luni-solar system, be it Hebrew, Greek or Babylonian, realises that the lunar year needs adjustment about every third year. Therefore it is not by coincidence that the Hebrew heptad of years was divided in half and called, a 'time, times and half a time.' This term is mentioned in the Bible of...

There seemed to have existed a conflict between the supporters of a solar based calendar and a moon based calendar. Now it should be theoretically possible to intercalate this with a Luni-Solar calendar such as was used in Macedon, Babylon, and by the Judean High Priests, but we really don't know i...