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| - The Enoch calendar is an ancient calendar described in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch. It divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks each. Each such season consisted of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month, and the 31st Day ended the Season. Enoch's Year consisted of exactly 364 days and the day had 18 parts per day of 80 minutes per part, which is equal to today's 24 hours per day and 60 minutes per hour, both totaling 1440 minutes per day. In order to create the 365 Day in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars, the 24 hour day was reduced to 23 hours, 56 minutes and 5 seconds, a Sidereal Day.
- The Enoch calendar is an ancient calendar described in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch. It divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks each. Each such season consisted of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month. Each season began on a Sunday; since the first month had 30 days, the second month began on a Tuesday; since the second month had 30 days, the third month began on a Thursday. E. G. Richards noted a system of intercalation that would make the Enoch calendar as accurate as the Gregorian calendar.
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| - The Enoch calendar is an ancient calendar described in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch. It divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks each. Each such season consisted of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month, and the 31st Day ended the Season. Enoch's Year consisted of exactly 364 days and the day had 18 parts per day of 80 minutes per part, which is equal to today's 24 hours per day and 60 minutes per hour, both totaling 1440 minutes per day. In order to create the 365 Day in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars, the 24 hour day was reduced to 23 hours, 56 minutes and 5 seconds, a Sidereal Day. The Enoch calendar was purportedly given to Enoch by the angel Uriel to replace the Pentecontad calendar with its seven 50-day months. The Enoch (Jubilee) Calendar includes 2 intercalated weeks and 4 intercalated days, specifically stating the months and the number of days in each, possibly due to emphasize a change from a 50-day month to a 30-day month and change from a seven-month year to a twelve-month year: First month: 30 days Second month: 30 days Third month: 31 days (including the named day "Summer") Fourth month: 30 days Fifth month: 30 days Sixth month: 31 days (including the named day "Autumn") Seventh month: 30 days Eighth month: 30 days Ninth month: 31 days (including the named day "Winter") Tenth month: 30 days Eleventh month: 30 days Twelfth month: 31 days (including the named day "Spring") It also specifically states that the four named days, inserted as the 31st day of every third month in computerized models but originally leading the following three months, would be a pitfall for kings and calendar-keepers alike because they were named instead of numbered, which "placed them outside the numbering". Just to prove the point, Enoch gives the count of 2,912 days for 8 years, which divides out to exactly 364 days per year. This specifically excludes any periodic intercalations as found in the Hezekiah Jubilee Calendar. The intercalated days in the Enoch calendar consisted of two full weeks and the four individual named days. In order to maintain the accepted number of twelve months in a year, the number of days in each month were reduced to 30 from the original 50. The two intercalations are effected by inserting a full week at two specified intervals, the Spring and Autumn, when the Earth's orbit is longer than at the aphelion or perihelion of its orbit. The Enoch calendar was superseded by the Hezekiah Jubilee Calendar around 701 B.C., when the shadow on the sun dial of Ahaz in the King's Garden retreated ten degrees, adding an additional 5.2422 days to the year. This same event caused the officials in Egypt to simply add the "five evil days" to the end of their calendar, as did many other nations, instead of configuring intercalations. Many persons interested in ancient calendars are unaware of the difference between the two versions of the Jubilee calendars, as they are both referenced without the prefix of "Enoch" to indicate the earlier, or "Hezekiah" to indicate the later model. For instance, calendar expert John Pratt wrote that "The Enoch calendar has been criticized as hopelessly primitive because, with only 364 days, it would get out of sync with the seasons so quickly: in only 25 years the seasons would arrive an entire month early. Such a gross discrepancy, however, merely indicates that the method of intercalation has been omitted." Pratt pointed out that by adding an extra week at the end of every seventh year (or Sabbatical year), and then adding two extra weeks to every fourth Sabbatical year, the calendar could be as accurate as the Julian calendar.
- The Enoch calendar is an ancient calendar described in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch. It divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks each. Each such season consisted of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month. Each season began on a Sunday; since the first month had 30 days, the second month began on a Tuesday; since the second month had 30 days, the third month began on a Thursday. Calendar expert John Pratt wrote that "The Enoch calendar has been criticized as hopelessly primitive because, with only 364 days, it would get out of sync with the seasons so quickly: in only 25 years the seasons would arrive an entire month early. Such a gross discrepancy, however, merely indicates that the method of intercalation has been omitted." E. G. Richards noted a system of intercalation that would make the Enoch calendar as accurate as the Gregorian calendar. Pratt proposed what he considers a better system. Adding an extra week at the end of every seventh year (called by Pratt a "Saturday year") makes the calendar as accurate as the Julian Calendar. Then, defining a "Great Year" to be a period of 364 years, just as a year in the Enoch calendar is a period of 364 days, Pratt says "In every set of five Great Years, two of the extra weeks ending the 28-year-cycle would be skipped, one in the third and another in the fifth Great Year." This makes the calendar more accurate than the Gregorian calendar.
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