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HEBREW DATING Nachum Dershowitz Edward M. Reingold

CALENDARS Gregorian Julian Hebrew Islamic Persian Chinese Hindu

HEBREW CALENDAR Lunisolar Days begin at sunset 19-year leap-year cycle Years given anno mundi

LUNISOLAR Lunar Months Solar Years (Average)

19-YEAR LEAP-YEAR CYCLE Determines leap months Not a cycle for dating!

YEARS GIVEN ANNO MUNDI Used since Middle Ages Era of Creation varies Seleucid era sometimes used Millennial year omitted in Hebrew

CONCEALED YEARS התשס = 5760

AMBIGUOUS DATES Letter from Ahad haAm

NEW MOON Kislev [5]652 Which day of the two-day new moon? Presumably the second day, which is the first of Kislev, rather than the last of Heshvan That is, December 2, 1891

Tuesday Weekly reading is Terumah Year is [5]692 Weekly reading has the words m e n o r a t zaha b tahor Numerical value mnrtb = 692 February 9, 1932

CONVERSION OF DATES Pitfalls Resources –Books –Electronic

PITFALLS Start of the day What year is it? Which calendar is it? No short cycle of date repetition between Hebrew and civil dates Erroneous calendars Erroneous tables Buggy software

START OF THE DAY Gregorian/Julian days start at midnight Hebrew/Islamic days start at sunset Hindu days start at sunrise

WHAT YEAR IS IT? Civil year starts January 1… …now But… …in parts of Europe has started variously on March 1, March 25, Easter, September 1, or Christmas!

WHICH CALENDAR IS IT? Switch from Julian to Gregorian took place over a period of almost 350 years! 1582 in Catholic regions of Europe Various dates in Protestant regions 1752 in Britain and her colonies 1918 in Russia 1927 in Turkey

SWEDISH AMBIVALENCE 1699 changed to Gregorian, so in 1700 February had 28 days But, in 1712 February had 30 days 1753 changed to Gregorian (again!)

CYCLE OF REPETITION For Hebrew/Gregorian calendars, cycle is over 14 billion years! 19- or 247-year cycles are only approximate

ERRONEOUS TABLES Parises Book of Calendars is awful

BUGGY SOFTWARE Excel and other spreadsheets take 1900 as a leap year U.S. Naval Observatory web site had the wrong dates for Passover for several years Gausss formula (often used in naïve software) is problematic

RELIABLE TABLES Spiers Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar Reingold & Dershowitzs Calendrical Tabulations Schrams Kalendariographische Und Chronologische Tafeln Wüstenfeld & Mahlers Vergleichungs- tabellen Zur Muslimischen Und Iranischen Zeitrechung Mit Tafeln Zur Umrechnung Orient-christlicher Ären

SPIER

REINGOLD & DERSHOWITZ

SCHRAM

Wüstenfeld & Mahler

DERSHOWITZ/REINGOLD APPLET Calendrica