Calendar

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CALENDAR.—See Time.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


See MONTH.
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.


kal?en-dar (Latin calendarium, ?an account book,? from calendae, ?day on which accounts were due?): The Hebrew or Jewish calendar had three stages of development: the pre?xilic, or Biblical; the postexilic, or Talmudic; and the post-Talmudic. The first rested on observation merely, the second on observation coupled with calculation, and the third on calculation only. In the first period the priests determined the beginning of each month by the appearance of the new moon and the recurrence of the prescribed feasts from the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Thus, the month Abı̄b ('ābhı̄bh), the first month of the year according to the Levitical law, in which the Passover was to be celebrated, was determined by observation (Exo_12:2; Dt 16). After the exile more accurate methods of determining the months and seasons came into vogue, and calculation was employed to supplement and correct observations and the calendar was regulated according to the Babylonian system, as is evidenced by the names of the months which are derived from it. In later times the calendar was fixed by mathematical methods (see the article ?Calendar? in the Jewish Encyclopedia). The difficulty of ascertaining the first day of the new moon by observation, in the early period, led to the celebration of two days, as seems to be indicated in 1Sa_20:27. We have only four names of months belonging to the pre?xilic period, and they are Phoenician. Of these 'Abı̄b ('ābhı̄bh) was the first month, as already indicated, and it corresponded to Nisan (nı̄ṣān) in the later calendar. It was the month in which the Exodus occurred and the month of the Passover (Exo_13:4; Exo_23:15; Exo_34:18; Deu_16:1).
The 2nd month of this calendar was Ziv (zı̄w) (1Ki_6:1, 1Ki_6:37); Ethanim ('ēthānı̄m) was the 7th (1Ki_8:2), corresponding to Tishrı̄ of the later calendar, and Būl ‛būl' the 8th, corresponded to Marḥesvan ‛marḥeshwān' (1Ki_6:38). There were course other month names in this old calendar, but they have not come down to us. These names refer to the aspects of the seasons: Thus Abı̄b ‛'ābhı̄bh' means grain in the ear, just ripening (Lev_2:14; Exo_9:31); Ziv ‛zı̄w' refers to the beauty and splendor of the flowers in the spring; Ethanim ‛'ēthānı̄m' means perennial, probably referring to living fountains; and Būl ‛būl' means rain or showers, being the month when the rainy season commenced. The full calendar of months used in the postexilic period is given in a table accompanying this article. The names given in the table are not all found in the Bible, as the months are usually referred to by number, but we find Nı̄ṣān in Neh_2:1 and Est_3:7; Ṣı̄wān in Est_8:9; Tammūz in Eze_8:4, although the term as here used refers to a Phoenician god after whom the month was named; 'Ĕlūl occurs in Neh_6:15; Kı̄ṣlēw (the American Standard Revised Version ?chislev?) in Neh_1:1 and Zec_7:1; Tēbhēth in Est_2:16; Shebhāṭ in Zec_1:7 and 'Ǎdhār in Ezr_6:15 and several times in Est. These months were lunar and began with the new moon, but their position in regard to the seasons varied somewhat because of the intercalary month about every three years.
The year (שׁנה, shānāh) originally began in the autumn, as appears from Exo_23:16 and Exo_34:22, where it is stated that the feast of Ingathering should be at the end of the year; the Sabbatic year began, also, in the 7th month of the calendar year (Lev_25:8-10), indicating that this had been the beginning of the year. This seems to have been a reckoning for civil purposes, while the year beginning with Nı̄ṣān was for ritual and sacred purposes. This resulted from the fact that the great feast of the Passover occurred in this month and the other feasts were regulated by this, as we see from such passages as Exo_23:14-16 and Dt 16:1-17. Josephus (Ant., I, iii, 3) says: ?Moses appointed that Nı̄ṣān, which is the same with Xanthicus, should be the first month of their festivals, because he brought them out of Egypt in that month; so that this month began the year as to all solemnities they observed to the honor of God, although he preserved the original order of the months as to selling and buying and other ordinary affairs.? A similar custom is still followed in Turkey, where the Mohammedan year is observed for feasts, the pilgrimage to Mecca and other sacred purposes, while the civil year begins in March O.S.
The year was composed of 12 or 13 months according as to whether it was ordinary or leap year. Intercalation is not mentioned in Scripture, but it was employed to make the lunar correspond approximately to the solar year, a month being added whenever the discrepancy of the seasons rendered it necessary. This was regulated by the priests, who had to see that the feasts were duly observed at the proper season. The intercalary month was added after the month of 'Ǎdhār and was called the second 'Ǎdhār (שׁני, shēnı̄, ואדר, wa-'ădhār, ?and Adar?), and, as already indicated, was added about once in 3 years. More exactly, 4 years out of every 11 were leap years of 13 months (Jewish Encyclopedia, article ?Calendar?), this being derived from the Babylonian calendar. If, on the 16th of the month Nı̄ṣān, the sun had not reached the vernal equinox, that month was declared to be the second 'Ǎdhār and the following one Nı̄ṣāň. This method, of course, was not exact and about the 4th century of our era the mathematical method was adopted. The number of days in each month was fixed, seven having 30 days, and the rest 29. When the intercalary month was added, the first 'Ǎdhār had 30 and the second 29 days.
Hebrew
Greek

Nı̄ṣān
ניסן
Xanthikós
Χανθικός
March-April
'Iyyār
איּר
Artemı́sios
Ἀρτεμίσιος
April-May
Ṣı̄wān
סיון
Daı́sios
Δαίσιος
May-June
Tammūz
תּמּוּז
Pánemos
Πάνεμος
June-July
'Ābh
אב
Lō̇os
Λῷος
July-August
'Ĕlūl
אלוּל
Gorpiaı́os
Γορπιαῖος
August-September
Tishrı̄
תּשׁרי
Huperberetaı́os
Ὑπερβερεταίος
September-October
Marḥeshwān
מרחשׁון
Dı́os
Δῖος
October-November
Kı̄ṣlēw
כּסלו
Apellaı́os
Ἀπελλαῖος
November-December
Ṭēbhēth
טבת
Audunaı́os
Αὐδυναῖος
December-January
Shebhāṭ
שׁבט;
Perı́tios
Περίτιος
January-February
'Ǎdhār
אדר
Dústros
Δύστρος
February-March
Calendar of Months Used in the Postexilic Period.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Calendar
in ecclesiastical usage, is a name for sculptures of agricultural labors, within medallions, found in Norman churches and those of the thirteenth century, as ornaments over doors and porches.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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