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December 15, 2015 12:41
15122015 Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception

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Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception by Helen Jacobus.

Brill, $234

The Hebrew calendar which governs our religious year, based on a lunar cycle, might have been fixed by the rabbis long ago.

But its adoption was by no means a foregone conclusion. The Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, contain evidence that there were alternative calendar systems in use in ancient days.