This is a detailed discussion on the Hebrew calendar. It discusses Astronomy, Talmud, History, Josephus, Philo, Karaite views and more. It debunks many suppositions and makes a strong argument against the modern Hillel II calendar.
Read more »Treatise on the Biblical Calendar, second edition by Herb Solinsky
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Treatise on the Biblical Calendar by Herb Solinsky
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This is the second edition of this general treatise on the biblical calendar. It does not presuppose that the reader is already familiar with various aspects of the biblical calendar. It begins with the most basic matters and gradually fills in the details in an orderly fashion, never requiring the reader to know something that will be explained later except for some appendices.
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The Jewish Calendar Year
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A lunar year has twelve months of either 29 or 30 days each, which yields a 354-day year. To ensure the same festivals always fall in the same season each year, an additional month (Adar II) is added seven times in every nineteen years to make up the difference. Determining what marks a new year is a bit complicated.
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