Unlikely that geocentric sheep herders had any concept of the earth completing an orbital path around the sun. Counting seasonal changes in a tropical-temperate Middle East is kind of dicey, while counting the effects of seasonal changes (e.g. river level cross a threshhold) would give imprecise results.
THE ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER IS AN ANGEL TOLD THEM WHAT TIME IT WAS.
2007-01-24 06:30:41 · 13 answers · asked by Insulting Other Participants 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you have a point
2007-01-24 06:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by whitefire14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus, you people are joking, right?
1. The Middle East _does_ have yearly seasonal variations...
2. You can follow the Zodiacal Belt.
3. They prinicipally used a lunar calendar based on the phases of the moons - 12 lunar months is only 11 days short of a solar year.
The Pyramids were built well before the Bible was compiled and it bespeaks all kinds of advanced knowledge of the earth's relationship to the sun.
2007-01-24 14:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by XYZ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer your question it must be understood that the bible is a compilation of works over hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. In fact it is widely understood that the birth of Jesus Christ dates more than 2,000-years ago of which the apostles were the main authors of the New Testament.
One of the main authors of the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible) is Moses who transcribed the story of ancient Israel and their escape from Egypt approximately five thousand years ago. The religious authorities over this time were the main influence on how the bible was compiled.
So for the authors of the bible to know what year it was, indeed, must have come from God above.
2007-02-01 12:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by BARTMAN 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, they didn't. No one says otherwise, that I'm aware. That's why you see cases like in Isaiah 6, "In the year that King Uzziah died . . . ," etc. They knew what a year was because of the changing of the seasons (springtime, harvest). However, the marking of time was relative to huge events, like a national census, for example.
Furthermore, the Hebrews did, in fact have a calendar, and God ordained that they should do certain things on a cyclical basis, like leave a field fallow every seven years, or all the stuff related to the year of jubilee (every 50 years). So, somebody knew how to count.
Hey, is that a picture of moogie?
2007-01-24 14:35:34 · answer #4 · answered by brainiac5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a matter of fact, the hebrews had a calendar which is used even today among jews. all jewish holidays are based on the hebrew calendar rather than the modern one. it is based on the cycles of the moon, and generally has 12 months, except for leap years which have 13 months in order to keep it balanced with the solar year.
2007-01-24 15:07:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had a count of days and even the significance of months in the sky... they used stars the constellations... etc... they were brilliant people and neber wanter a calender.
Padmanabhan S
2007-02-01 10:58:47 · answer #6 · answered by ithebestinworld 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bowling Ball of Providence (pbuh) recorded the time for them.
2007-01-24 14:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, couldn't be the angels, they were too busy coming down to Earth to have sex with hot *** Earth women who then gave birth to a race of GIANTS.
2007-01-24 14:38:34 · answer #8 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is a work of fiction, it will never be found in the Non-Fiction section of any bookstore.
They made up the dates and times.
2007-01-24 14:35:00 · answer #9 · answered by Aunt Henny Penny 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. Don't forget Egyptian civilization was, in some ways, more advanced than we are today.
2007-01-24 14:36:25 · answer #10 · answered by robert c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wrote the Bible.
Time is not relevant to Him.
2007-01-24 14:35:44 · answer #11 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋