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Deciphering the 364-Day Calendar: New Study Solves a Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery

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Deciphering the 364-Day Calendar: New Study Solves a Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery

A fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

A new study has finally solved a decades-old mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls, offering an explanation for the peculiar 364-day calendar found within the ancient texts. For years, scholars have debated whether the Qumran sect’s seemingly flawed calendar, which lost a day and a quarter each year compared to the solar cycle, was ever actually used in practice or if it was merely a theoretical model. Now, research from Tel Aviv University suggests that the calendar was indeed actively used by the sect in its early days, and it may have even been the central cause of their schism with the religious establishment in Jerusalem.

According to the study conducted by Professor Eshbal Ratzon of the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, the 364-day calendar was not just an abstract concept. It was a functioning system that stood at the crux of a bitter dispute between the Qumran community, often associated with the Essenes, and the mainstream Pharisaic leadership. The findings, published in the Tarbiz Quarterly for Jewish Studies, propose that the calendar was eventually abandoned due to its inherent mathematical flaws and shifting political landscapes.

Gary Manners

www.Ancient-Origins.net – Reconstructing the story of humanity’s past


Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/qumran-calendar-00103018



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