Re: Ancient Hebrew Calendar
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:05 pm
Enoch too.
Investigating the roots of western civilization (ye olde BC&H forum of IIDB lives on...)
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iskander wrote: There seemed to have existed a conflict between the supporters of a solar based calendar and a moon based calendar.
No doubt, the Qumran calendar was a serious attempt to rediscover something that existed in earlier times. They attribute it to none other than Enoch, but DSS scholars say it was invented in the 3rd century BC. I have tried to intercalate it but couldn't. Anyway, here is my next post. More arithmetic sorry but please bear with me.DCHindley wrote: 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 if it actually was. I believe that there are DSS fragments that attempt to equate them, at least for a three year period (before breaking off), but whether this was a developed system or just a sample period (some historical names are mentioned) used pesher style I do not know.
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 dates.DCHindley wrote:I wonder if the results are not due to the usual waves and oscillations (the calculus) found in complex applied mathematics.
Leap years are already included in my calculations. I'll get up another svg diagram showing intercalation over 49 years. As for the 19-year Metonic cycle, this is the point of my topic; they didnt use it. I believe we have evidence for a sabbatical cycle producing the same results, but with another way of going about it.DCHindley wrote: Wouldn't intercalated years affect your calculations? Maybe I am wrong, but how could we reasonably get the exact same number of days in any given 7 year period when the intercalation scheme that synchronizes the Luni-Solar calendar with the true solar year is based on a 19 year cycle? And why measure from Ab to Ab?
Ive heard that Parker & Dubberstein have the best chronology of the inter-testament period, but their book is out of print. Yes, I'd like to see their dates. The Sabbatical cycles are known during that era, except by that time the Jews had switched their New Year to 1st Tishri. When my calculations are taken from 1st Nisan the system should still work. Ill try to put some examples in a chart.DCHindley wrote:Can we apply this to the reconstructed Babylonian calendar of Parker & Dubberstein, where the range covered stretches from 626 BCE to 75 CE? If we were to take samples (the size of which is to be determined) from that 701 year pool of years (or about 100 sample seven year cycles) times each of the 7 possible starting years for the sample periods, (626-619 BCE), and successfully apply your rule to a significant degree, then you can accept it as a given, but I suspect that there will be variances caused by intercalation that will cause the significance test to fail.
Ged,Ged wrote:That's me done but we can discuss some more if you like.
Full paper submitted here:
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