Time Intervals in 1 En. 72:8–32

dc.contributor.authorDrawnel, Henryk
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-06T11:50:42Z
dc.date.available2025-11-06T11:50:42Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstract1 En. 72:8–32 contains the monthly scheme of the change in the length of the day and night within the schematic year of 364 days. The scheme uses two basic units to measure the time difference in the length of the nychthemeron between solstices: one ‘part’ and the fraction 1/9. Each nychthemeron is divided into 18 ‘parts’, and the regular factor of monthly variation is one ‘part’. Modern scholarship has failed to explain the meaning and function of the fraction 1/9 and the origin of the division of the nychthemeron into 18 ‘parts’. The first part of this study explains the meaning of the fraction 1/9 in the monthly computus and its relationship to one ‘part’. The second explores the division of the nychthemeron into 18 ‘parts’ compared to Table C, which is part of Tablet XIV of the Babylonian astrological compendium Enūma Anu Enlil.
dc.identifier.citation"The Biblical Annals", 2025, Vol. 15, No. 4, ss. 671-688
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/ba.17380
dc.identifier.issn2451-2168
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kul.pl/handle/20.500.12153/9063
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSecond Temple Judaism
dc.subjectJewish Pseudepigrapha
dc.subject1 Enoch 72
dc.subjectancient Jewish astronomy
dc.subject364-day year
dc.subjectduration of daytime and night
dc.subjectmonthly change factor
dc.subjectearly Babylonian astronomy
dc.subjectEnūma Anu Enlil
dc.subjectEAE XIV Table C
dc.titleTime Intervals in 1 En. 72:8–32
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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