did the ancient jews and early christians follow the roman calendar? are there better calendars out there?

Answer 1

Roman Calandar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#From_Roman_to_Julian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_calandar#Roman_Era


Roman Era
The Jewish-Roman wars of 66–73, 115–117, and 132–135 caused major disruptions in Jewish life, also disrupting the calendar. During the third and fourth centuries, Christian sources describe the use of eight, nineteen, and 84 year lunisolar cycles by Jews, all linked to the civil calendars used by various communities of Diaspora Jews, which were effectively isolated from Levant Jews and their calendar. Some assigned major Jewish festivals to fixed solar calendar dates, whereas others used epacts to specify how many days before major civil solar dates Jewish lunar months were to begin.

Calendars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar

Answer 2

The "Roman calendar" as you term it was based on seasonal times and events, not on a day by day method. This was a common practice, but no more accurate than the method the Jews used, in specifically pointing out ruling personages and seasons to specify the time period.
The modern calendar is a recent invention, only a few centuries old, so in answer to your question...no, they didn't use their Roman equivalent of a calendar.

Answer 3

The Jews had their own calendar (still do!) way before the Romans. Can't speak for the early Christians.

Answer 4

The Christians probably did until they developed their own since time had to be tracked. The Jews had a calendar like system dependent on testimony of seeing the moon since Sinai to the Hight Court, as the court was ending with the close of second Jewish/Israeli commonwealth (long after the second temple's destruction) an actual calendar was developed.

Answer 5

I'd assume that the early Christians followed the Roman calendar, since it's what they had at the time--we use the Gregorian calendar in most places now.

The Mayan calendar is pretty darn interesting, actually...

Answer 6

actually, our calendar is the most efficient because we now understand the time the earth takes to complete it's orbit of the sun...and the time the moon takes to orbit earth. (otherwise christmas would be in june in a few years) 365 1/4 days...so we have to add one day every 4 years. we don't use any particular culture's calendar. people call it the christian calendar, however, it has nothing to do with gods and devils...it is science that gave us the understanding.

Answer 7

the early christians were jews and may have used the hebrew calnedar. the gentile christians prabably used the roman calendar.

Answer 8

I am not sure what the ancients used as a calendar, and yes, there are other calendars out there, but ours is the one the world uses for commerce and such.

Answer 9

I believe so. I say this because some of the dates of Christian holidays coincide with the dates of roman holidays in order to avoid persecution. I don't know if there are better, I assume you mean more accurate, but I don't think there is one that is more widely used in this country.

Answer 10

because of the fact we've self assurance that lots of the prophecies, of what all of us understand because of the fact the previous testomony, have been fulfilled in Jesus. The Jewish every physique remains finding in the direction of the achievement of those prophecies. We have self assurance that we at the instant are in "The Time of the Gentiles" which will sooner or later end with the return of the "Time of the Jews". Over the centuries there have been people who tried to coach that the "Time of the Jews" is over, yet there is no longer something to represent that God has each and every discarded the Jewish human beings. We have self assurance that we are presently in a "Time of the Gentiles" which will come to an end and that God at that element will as quickly as returned work together with the Jewish human beings many times. over the final 20 centuries there have been those that have tried to assert that the Jewish human beings now no longer count number, that God is thru with them and have used it as justification to annoy and persecute them. there is no longer something interior the hot testomony to represent that, purely that for a time God has chosen to work together with the Gentiles, and that element will come to an end. it is going to be stated that purely one author of the hot testomony develop into no longer Jewish. that's believed that Luke could have been a gentile. i've got self assurance that Jesus lived his finished existence as a Jew. lots of the early followers of Jesus seen themselves to be Jews. the adjustments and the personalities have clashed over the years and various have used that as an excuse to make claims against the Jewish those that are no longer supported by the evidence of the hot testomony. Shalom.