Manuscripts & Scrolls

Fifty-Two Weeks, No Remainder

A study by Prof. Eshbal Ratzon of Tel Aviv University argues that the Qumran sect really did run its famous 364-day calendar in daily life — at least at first — and then quietly stopped, because 364 days is a day and a quarter short of a solar year and the error compounds. Here is what the calendar

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