longview Posted December 21, 2018 Posted December 21, 2018 8 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said: Only a 360-day year count can coordinate those three required dates. No other calendar works. For example, the 360-day count loses 6 months in Jesus' 33-year life, and thus coincides with Autumn birth and Springtime death. 33 solar years would have a Passover to Passover sequence for his life. I am confused. I thought I read somewhere that the Jews occasionally inserted a 13th month into their lunar calendar in order to adjust for celestial observations. They could have marked equinoxes in winter and summer? 8 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said: (1) the date when Lehi left Jerusalem, 597 BC (I Nephi 1:4, 10:4, III Nephi superscription), (2) the birth of Jesus 600 years later, Autumn 6-5 BC (Helaman 14:2, III Nephi 1:1, 2:8), and (3) the death of Jesus in his 34th year and 4th day, Spring 27-28 AD (III Nephi 8:5). Assuming the Jews had no problems with "resetting" the calendar, here is my arithmetic: 1- subtracting 596 years from 597 BC brings us to 1 BC. The next year would be 1 AD. 2- 600 years after 597 BC would make it 4 AD. 3- 34 years after 4 AD is 38 AD?
Robert F. Smith Posted December 21, 2018 Posted December 21, 2018 (edited) 30 minutes ago, longview said: I am confused. I thought I read somewhere that the Jews occasionally inserted a 13th month into their lunar calendar in order to adjust for celestial observations. They could have marked equinoxes in winter and summer? Then as now, the Jews intercalated an extra month when necessary (on a regular schedule) because they used a luni-solar year. The BofM uses the 360-day tun year (the Mesoamerican Long Count year), which is unrelated to the lunar or solar year. This presents no liturgical problem for Jewish religious practice. Quote Assuming the Jews had no problems with "resetting" the calendar, here is my arithmetic: 1- subtracting 596 years from 597 BC brings us to 1 BC. The next year would be 1 AD. 2- 600 years after 597 BC would make it 4 AD. 3- 34 [33] years after 4 AD is 38 AD? 360-day tun-"years" do not give the same totals when using solar years. I provided the correct totals when using the standard Mesoamerican Long Count years. Do the math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar . Edited December 21, 2018 by Robert F. Smith
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