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Intercalation and the Hebrew Calendar

Intercalation and the Hebrew Calendar INTERCALATION AND THE HEBREW CALENDAR BY J. B. SEGAL London I In the present article 1) I propose to examine the evolution in the Hebrew calendar of one aspect of calendar-making-the method by which an additional, or intercalary, month was inserted every two or three years. The problems of the Hebrew calendar are still far from solution. Yet our knowledge of systems of chronology and the calen- dar in the ancient Middle East has made remarkable progress during the past half-century. Side by side with the decipherment of texts from, above all, Egypt and Babylonia, we have had general studies of great importance on astronomy and time-reckoning. The conclu- sions reached in these studies are of no little significance for an analysis 1) A summary of the first three sections of this article was read at the Summer meeting of the Society for Old Testamcnt Study at Birmingham on 14th July, 1955. The following abbrevations are used in the notes: BASOR = Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research BT = Babylonian Talmud DB = Dictionary of the Bible. EB = Encyclopaedia Britannica EBib = Encyclopaedia Biblica ERE = Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics HUCA = Hebrew http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

Intercalation and the Hebrew Calendar

Segal, J.B.
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 7 (1): 250 – Jan 1, 1957
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© 1957 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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INTERCALATION AND THE HEBREW CALENDAR BY J. B. SEGAL London I In the present article 1) I propose to examine the evolution in the Hebrew calendar of one aspect of calendar-making-the method by which an additional, or intercalary, month was inserted every two or three years. The problems of the Hebrew calendar are still far from solution. Yet our knowledge of systems of chronology and the calen- dar in the ancient Middle East has made remarkable progress during the past half-century. Side by side with the decipherment of texts from, above all, Egypt and Babylonia, we have had general studies of great importance on astronomy and time-reckoning. The conclu- sions reached in these studies are of no little significance for an analysis 1) A summary of the first three sections of this article was read at the Summer meeting of the Society for Old Testamcnt Study at Birmingham on 14th July, 1955. The following abbrevations are used in the notes: BASOR = Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research BT = Babylonian Talmud DB = Dictionary of the Bible. EB = Encyclopaedia Britannica EBib = Encyclopaedia Biblica ERE = Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics HUCA = Hebrew

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Published: Jan 1, 1957

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