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- From: krulwich@zowie.ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)
- Subject: Re: Length of years (was Re: ***MoJ: Proof 1: The Amazing Prophecy***)
- In-Reply-To: pub@riscee.pko.dec.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:17:45 GMT
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- pub@riscee.pko.dec.com (Publius) writes:
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- > carroll@bifur.cis.udel.edu (Mark C. Carroll) writes:
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- > >There is _no_ evidence of _any_ use of a 360 day calendar.
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- > Babylonians were known to use a 360 day calender, which is consistent with
- > their use of base 60 arithmetics. Remember that the Book of Daniel was
- > written in Babylonian Exile. It is perfectly appropriate for it to use the
- > Babylonian 360 day year.
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- Baloney. Jews have always based everything religious on the Jewish calendar.
- Look at history and you'll find that elements of the calendars of the nations
- in which we've resided have never been adopted. If fact, Jews have been so
- resilient about this that among the common anti-semitic decrees made by
- friendly cristian governments of the diaspora (such as prohibiting bris mila
- and Kosher food) was to prohibit calendrical calculations and celebrations of
- the new months.
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- We've always used the same religious calendar, and it is this calendar, with
- leap year additions, that G-d was obviously using in prophesies.
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- Dov (Bruce) Krulwich
- krulwich@ils.nwu.edu
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