A portion of the recently deciphered Dead Sea Scroll 4Q324d containing a 364-day calendar used by the Qumran community in the Judean Desert. Photo: Courtesy of the University of Haifa.
A portion of the recently deciphered Dead Sea Scroll 4Q324d containing a 364-day calendar used by the Qumran community in the Judean Desert. Photo: Courtesy of the University of Haifa.
I hear HilLIARy used Cryptic -A code in her communiques with the Kremlin
Obvious conclusion - the earth circled the sun more quickly back then - the orbit is slowing down.
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That's certainly interesting
Revelation 6:5-6 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Interesting. Which month was designated as Black history month?
Wouldn’t that mean that the Biblical festivals would have been eventually celebrated outside of their typical seasons?
Sure, before global warming it was too cold to have 365 days.
(Close enough for government work)
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.
