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Posted on 02/12/2018 8:31:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Sidereal vs. Synodic Motions
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion3/sidereal_synodic.html
Scroll 4Q324d describes two festivals that aren’t in the Hebrew Bible, but are known from the Dead Sea Scroll known as the Temple Scroll: the festivals of New Wine and New Oil, which follow the festival of Shavuot celebrating the New Wheat. In addition, we learn from this scroll the name of the special day the Qumran community inserted between seasons to celebrate the transition: the name is Tekufah, which today means “period” in Hebrew.
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They seemed to have a lot of parties. I guess that’s the way life was before TV and the Internet.
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Yeah, the New Wine festival was so popular they never got around to including it in the Scriptures.
The New Oil was used for a variety of different things, including massages and foreplay.
Tekufah, whiich today means “period”, well, they were happy to see that come around after they recovered from the haze of the New Wine and New Oil festivities.
Looks like, as I read it, they had an extra day inserted annually; that would cover it, as long as they added a second leap day every fourth year, or as necessary, when it started getting out of whack.
52 7 day weeks, and an extra non calendrical “year day”, with the occasional “double year day” tossed in.
sort of like: Sunday, March 19th; Monday, March 20th; Equinox Day/New Year Day; (Leap Day, if needed); Tuesday, March 21st; ...
I don’t think so. There’s probably a missing fragment that deals with the intercalating. Consider the below explanation of the Icelandic calendar of 364 days. The same method could have been used anywhere there were mountains for observation. Within the same link, an interesting aside of Cro-Magnon man working out a 29-day lunar calendar in the caves of Lascaux, proving the 29-day lunar cycle hasn’t changed in a longggg time. (and if the earth’s rotation had slowed that would have affected the lunar cycle, yes?). :
“How did Thorsteinn the Black determine his intercalation? His farm was favorably located in the country to utilize the so-called mountain circle method, that is, to follow the annual motion of sunrise and sunset near the horizon where he would have suitably distant mountains and other reference points in the landscape to make fairly exact observations possible. At high latitudes the points of sunrise and sunset move so fast that this method could easily be used to determine the length of the year to within a day.
“According to this, people started by counting 52 weeks or 364 days in the year. When they realized the insufficiency of this they tried the remedy of intercalating one week every seventh year (sumarauki), thus making the average year 365 days.
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-ancient.html
I’ve never understood this:
and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
How would one hurt or bruise wine and oil?
Oil and wine would have been viewed as a store of value, the “increase” from crops that would have otherwise have been consumed or gone to waste. A form of wealth. I’ve always read an almost Marie Antoinette “let them eat cake” sort of sentiment into that passage, arrogant and dismissive of those who were likely experiencing famine, unlike themselves. Just my understanding, derived from exposure to Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Moravian churches in my formative years, most heavily Baptist due to several years in a private Baptist school.
Or their watches were a bit slow and days were a bit longer....reset when night started looking like day....
Experience tells me that it all makes perfect sense of itself eventually, with enough *observation*.
I had merely noticed the merge of the various elements of the verse in the information in the scroll.
The Temple Scroll was never on my radar until brought to my attention by this article. Turns out, the New Wine festival was celebrated 50 days after Shavuot, and New Oil 50 days after that.
“Temple” Scroll...
There is another place where wheat, barley, oil, and wine are stuffed into one verse, 2 Chr 2.
2 Chronicles 2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2 Chronicles 2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
Wages for building the... Temple.
Something to add to my stack of data. I never know when it will connect with something else. Like the dream about the crashing shapes from two years ago, seeing them appear yesterday on Michael’s dress.
Certainly not first time I have encountered time lags on imagery matches. Happens a lot. If/when I am supposed to fit this oil and wine into some other study, it’ll jump right in front of me.
Kind of like the difference between x + y = z and RPN.
Ummm, FRiend -- wouldn't a shorter year indicate a faster-spinning Earth?
I really laughed hard at that. Nationwide is at your backside.
Nope. Seems like it, I know — but the longer it takes the Earth to complete a revolution on its axis, the longer the day is, annnnnd, given an Earth travelling the same path around the Sun, the same amount of time is then divided by those longer days.
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