[geocentrism] Re: Forum reopened

Hi Neville,
We still probably should wait on the update.  I have actually downloaded 
the source of the Calendar overview page on your site and am making the 
changes.  I'd like to send the corrected page back to you tonight if 
possible and see if the formatting works correctly.

Since I wrote the article I have attempted to fit the Biblical calendar 
for the years 2003 through 2008.  I have used the mooncalc program at 
http://www.starlight.demon.co.uk/mooncalc/ to determine visibility.  I 
see that the crescent moon is first easily visible about 22 to 60 hours 
after conjunction.  The match with moon phases has some variability, but 
the mean hours difference between sunset on the Biblical Sabbaths and 
the time of the major phases is about 3 hours before for first quarter, 
7 hours after for full moon, and 17 hours after for last quarter (my 
statistics are not complete).   I'd appreciate any help on getting a 
handle on the variation of number of days between the major phases.

Below is the Jewish encyclopedia article on the week and moon phases.  
Note towards the end of the article that they don't even guess when the 
change from what I'm arguing is the Biblical Calendar to a continuous 
seven day repeating cycle occurred.

By : Emil G. Hirsch 
<http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/contrib.jsp?cid=C120031&xid=A120601&artid=73&letter=W>
   


ARTICLE HEADINGS:
  Connection with Lunar Phases. 
<http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=73&letter=W#193>
  Week-Days Not Named. 
<http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=73&letter=W#194>

Connection with Lunar Phases.

A division of time comprising seven days, thus explaining the Hebrew 
name. There are indications of the use of another system of reckoning 
time, in which the month was divided into three parts of ten days each, 
the decade being designated in Hebrew by the term " 'asor" (Gen. xxiv. 
55; comp. the commentaries of Dillmann and Holzinger ad loc.; Ex. xii. 
3; Lev. xvi. 29, xxiii. 27, xxv. 9). This apparently represented 
one-third of the solar month, while the week of seven days was connected 
with the lunar month, of which it is, approximately, a fourth. The 
quadripartite division of the month was evidently in use among the 
Hebrews and other ancient peoples; but it is not clear whether it 
originated among the former. It is unnecessary to assume, however, that 
it was derived from the Babylonians, for it is equally possible that 
observations of the four phases of the moon led the Hebrew nomads 
spontaneously and independently to devise the system of dividing the 
interval between the successive new moons into four groups of seven days 
each. There is ground, on the other hand, for the assumption that both 
among the Babylonians and among the Hebrews the first day of the first 
week of the month was always reckoned as coincident with the first day 
of the month. The emphasis laid on the requirement (Lev. xxiii. 15) that 
the weeks of Pentecost 
<http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=177&letter=P> should 
be "complete" ("temimot") suggests that weeks might be reckoned in such 
a way as to violate this injunction. This was the case as long as the 
first day of the first week of the month was made to coincide with the 
new moon. At the end of four weeks an interval of one or two days might 
intervene before the new week could begin. At an early date, however, 
this intimate connection between the week and the moon must have been 
dissolved, the chief cause of the fixed week of seven days being, in all 
probability, the predominance of the seventh day as the Sabbath (but see 
Meinhold, "Sabbat und Woche im O. T." Göttingen, 1905, according to whom 
Sabbath, originally only the full-moon day and the week areindependent 
of each other). The week thus became a useful standard in the 
measurement of intervals of time (one week, Gen. xxix. 27 et seq.; two 
weeks, Lev. xii. 5; three weeks, Dan. x. 2; seven weeks, Deut. xvi. 9; 
Lev. xxiii. 15).

Concerning the three days and three nights, I think it would be good to 
pick up the discussion.  I'd like to suggest that we look at the 
parallel passage to Matt. 12:40 in Luke 11: 29-33 to see the most 
important point that Messiah was making.   Also, could we go through the 
time indicated for the death, burial and resurrection in the Gospels one 
at a time?

Carl


Dr. Neville Jones wrote:

>Well, I'm still fascinated by this calendar business.
> 
>Carl - I found the e-mail you sent me (it was saved on my computer). Do you 
>want me to affect the changes to your article?
> 
>I am still bothered by the three days and three nights in the tomb and do not 
>feel that we have resolved the issue at all yet. Perhaps we could concentrate 
>on this for a while?
> 
>Philip - Things are certainly moving apace, though the "Fatima visions" have 
>proven to be just as wrong as Nostro.
> 
>Neville.
>
>Jack Lewis <jandjlew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>No! You?
>
>Jack
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>Subject: [geocentrism] Forum reopened
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