Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, jonathan.mohler AT gmail.com
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] , cultic calendar, shanah
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:45:47 +0100
Just to make one comment about your 6 month year, do you realise that
both today in Israel and ever since the festivals were instuted that
passover, in Nissan, represents the first month of the year because
the children came out of Israel, and today this is the beginning of
the CIVIL year. And that the month wherin Taberbacles happens,
Tishrei, represents the end of the harvest/crop cycle year - the
first month of the Religious year.
There are two new years so to speak separated by 6 months, but this
in no way ever did imply that the jewish year was six months long.
Never.
Chris Watts
Ireland