Re: Concalendrical reference point
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 28, 2002, 5:33 |
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Roger Mills scripsit:
> Is that date in any way related to the putative Creation according to
> Genesis, as it was determined by some 18th or 19th century cleric, working
> backwards from all the begats and kings' reigns etc. in the Bible??
No, that was 4004 B.C.E. The point here is that the Julian calendar
repeats itself every 28 years, the moon phases every 19 years (19 years
= 255 lunar months almost exactly), and the Roman Imperial taxes
repeated every 15 years. 4173 B.C.E. is the moment when all three
of these cycles are in the first year. So Jan 1, 4173 B.C.E. is a
Sunday and a full moon and the first year of the indiction (tax) cycle.
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