The Astronomy of the Bible. An Elementary Commentary On the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
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The 2300-year cycle gives evidence of a more accurate knowledge of the respective lengths of month and year than is involved in the cycle of 1 9 years. And the latter is a cycle which a Jew would be naturally led to detect, as the number of intercalary months contained in it is seven, the Hebrew sacred number.^ The Book of Daniel, therefore, itself proves to us that king Nebuchadnezzar was perfectly justified in the high estimate which he formed of the attainments of the four Hebrew children. C...ertainly one of them, Daniel, was a better instructed mathematician and astronomer 1 Since the above was written direct proof tas been forthcoming of the acquaintance of the Jews with the Metonic cycle long previous to the time of Meton. Mr. E. B. Knobel, in a paper read before the Royal Astronomical Society on March 13, 1908, discussed some Aramaic papyri discovered at Syene, and recently translated by Prof. A. H. Sayce and Mr. A. E. Cowley. These papyri are contracts dated according to both the Jewish and the Egyptian calendars.
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