Judaism does not use the Biblical Calendar, as ordained from God. Rather observe a "calculated" calendar as

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instituted by Hillel I I in the mid-4th century C.E.

There is a very small sect, (about 12,000 worldwide) who observe the original calendar as God intended. These are the "Karaites".

There was another great calendrical controversy in the 11th century involving Saadia Gaon and Maimonides...(Interesting reading for any "calendar buffs"....

I am not Jewish, but about 30 years ago, I did some extensive research on the subject. The above are my conclusions.

I invite any who challenge my conclusions to respond.

Answer 1

I am a Qaraite...I agree with you.

As a Qaraite, I go by the Tenakh and Torah (essentially, God), not the rabbis...

Answer 2

There's no such thing as the "Biblical Calendar".

There is no way of proving that the Karaites have a calendar that reaches back before 1500 BC, I would guess, since I've studied pretty much all known writings before this date, whether Mesopotamian, Egyptian or Chinese.

The main point that you're missing is that writing did not develop until about 3500 BC, and there's no way of proving that ANY calendar was used before that point, much less what it was. We can only guess that years, months and days were used. How they were used is anyone's guess.

An additional point that you're missing is that calendars as we know them require an "era" reference point, a specific point in time used to number the years. The first time such an idea was even conceived was after the Roman period.

Today, Jews use "anno mundo", the time of creation, and count their years from that point. Christians use "anno domini", and count from the (mistaken) year of Jesus' birth. Muslims use their own established by Mohammed.

Before these, years were counted from current events only, such as which year of the current king. The Assyrians came the closest establishing a continuous calendar that can actually be reproduced because it was kept in such detail, and this perhaps as early as 1300 BC. The Egyptians actually noted every individual year throughout history on the Polermo Stone, likely from the first Dynasty. (We currently only have about 1/8 of the stone and can't reconstruct Egyptian history beyond that from this source alone. The detail on the stone included the exact amount that the nile rose each year and who the current king was. This is not the same as an "era" reference point, but it might actually accomplish the same thing in an extravegant amount of detail.)

Answer 3

God did not ordain a calendar. The Jewish race started THEIR calendar form the expulsion of ADAM and EVE from the Garden of Eden and the formation of the Abramic tribes. Just as the Christian Calender starts from the supposed birth of Jesus"the Christ".
All religions or countries started their calenders from the birth of their different rulers . Egypt is a prime example of this.

Answer 4

first of Angle of Fire is not a Karite but a Christian and I bet she has no clue what you are talking about.


secondly the reason for the calender if you would have searched is because only a proper Sanhedrin located in Israel had the biblical authority to sanctify the months.

Hillel had the foresight to see that this would not last much longer (it died out about 200 years latter).

As such his Sanhedrin sanctified the new months for the next several hundred years. Thus those months have biblical authority.

if at any such time a proper Sanhedrin would reassert itself in Israel then once again the Jewish calender would be based on sightings of the moon rather than a pre-sanctified calender.

Answer 5

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