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The Hebrew calendar’s Babylonian secret: How gods and weather named the Jewish months
Tammuz was a Mesopotamian fertility god, Adar may have meant gloomy and several familiar month names came from Akkadian after the Babylonian exile; rabbis later found distinctly Jewish meanings for the foreign names
Shmuel Munitz | 09.13.26
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How a struggle over power and faith shaped the Hebrew calendar
An ancient Qumran calendar reveals a battle over Jewish timekeeping, from Antiochus’ rule and the struggle between the Zadokites and Hasmoneans to the dispute between Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Joshua over Yom Kippur
Yitzhak Tessler | 09.11.26
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The ingenious math that makes the Hebrew calendar work
From leap years to lunar months measured with remarkable precision, the Hebrew calendar uses an intricate mathematical system to keep Jewish holidays aligned with both the moon and the seasons
Raphael Bernard | 09.08.26
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