----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: CNN Breaking News
> I've never heard any such thing... the intercalated month was always a > doubling of the month Adar, the month right before Nisan (the month that > Passover falls out in). OK, that does make sense. I do know that the condition of the roads for the pilgrims to Jerusalem was part of the calculation. Based on variation in the weather, the New year could move backwards and forwards by +/- a month. I would guess that the Essenes would have had a rigerous rule for calculating when to insert the extra month. The point is that the whole reason that the > calendar is SOLI-lunar in the first place is because Passover has to > occur in the springtime. If it wasn't sufficiently spring, the Sanhedrin > (high council) would repeat the month before Passover. > Fine, with spring determined by the conditions of the roads. Dan M.
