Kamis, 27 Juni 2019

Breaking Down The Origin Of The Biblical Calendar Hebrew

By Harold Brooks


While the Gregorian calendars are the most widely used ones in society today, most of the Jews still stick with what is known as the Jewish calendar system. Now, the Biblical Calendar Hebrew is the older version of the more modern Jewish system and the one used in the Old Testament. Here are a few things to know about this date system.

The calendars in the Bible did not use this system that is used today known as the Gregorian calendar as they used an older system that included the important feasts that must be observed. In the Bible, it is important for the followers to follow the exact days of the feast for proper worship. For that, the Jews revolved the dates around the times at which they need to have a worship feast.

Now, it is also important to note that the system of dates used in the Bible is still used today but with more calculations. This is known as the revised Jewish calendar which has important calculations and is not just based on pure observation. In order to know how it evolved into the modern form of today, one must look back at the origin of the Bible calendars.

There were no mention of dates back then so it was really vague on how the people in Israel knew when the Passover or other feasts were. However, Genesis gives insight on how God instructed the people to observe certain feasts by looking at the sky. For instance, Genesis one verse fourteen would state that there will be light in Heaven that splits the day and night and there will be signs of seasons.

One of the first indicators of time would be the presence of light in the sky and darkness. This can actually be found in the book of Genesis wherein God says that there will be light called the day and there will be darkness called the night. If one day and one night pass, then it will already be considered a full day.

In order to form a week, seven days would have to pass. According to the Bible, God created the world in seven days which means that it took seven days and nights to pass before reaching the end. That is why the last weekend day, or Sunday, is known as the Sabbath day since it signifies perfection.

Of course, there would also be the issue of counting months wherein the followers had to know what month the Passover feast has to be observed. Back then, the Jews had to count months by looking at the cycle of the moon. The moon would go through an entire cycle before going back to its original state signifying that one month has already passed.

Lastly would be the counting of the years wherein the start of the year would be the month of Abib. Now, the book of Exodus gives a very clear depiction of the state of the environment depending on what month it is in the year which is how the Jews knew which month was which. Again, this was all done through observation and the calculations only came in the later years.




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