Thanks for the article from Clines (I presume). I note that he supports
me and Young in taking numbered months as starting in spring even if the
new year was celebrated in the autumn, for he writes:
> late in Jehoiakim's fourth year, say in September, Jeremiah is bidden
> to write his scroll, and Baruch gives a public reading in December
> (Kislev, the ninth month) of the fifth year. ...
> some advocates of the autumn new year claim that the year was still
> regarded as beginning in the autumn even when the months were numbered
> from the spring.
The implication of this is that even if Nehemiah was using an autumnal
calendar he left Susa in spring, arrived in Jerusalem in midsummer,
finished the wall in Elul in late summer, and the "seventh month"
dedication (8:2) was at the autumn new year festival. And Ezra's travel
seasons were similar.
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