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muriel_volestrangler

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7. That 29.5 days wrt the Sun makes it closer to 12 "months" than 13 in a solar year

Reply to hunter (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 05:50 PM

Oct 2022

365.25 / 29.53 = 12.37 (as much, or a bit more, accuracy as they had 2000 years ago). So the choice of 12 or 13 was not simple, nor necessarily religious or 'lucky'.

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Days of the Week [View all] Lionel Mandrake Oct 2022 OP

Thank you for this thorough telling, my dear Lionel Mandrake! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2022 #1

** sings ** OhZone Oct 2022 #2

The Hebrew 7 day week is not unrelated - they all derive from the Sumerian one muriel_volestrangler Oct 2022 #3

Thank you for the clarification. Lionel Mandrake Oct 2022 #6

I find no consensus among scholars about this. Lionel Mandrake Oct 2022 #10

I always figured it had something to do with the moon. hunter Oct 2022 #4

The relationship between "month" and "moon" is clear. Lionel Mandrake Oct 2022 #5

That 29.5 days wrt the Sun makes it closer to 12 "months" than 13 in a solar year muriel_volestrangler Oct 2022 #7

A calendar of 12 months of 28,29,30,or 31 days makes more sense? hunter Oct 2022 #8

I don't think you can call it an "overt rejection" muriel_volestrangler Oct 2022 #9