The Qumran system differed sharply from the lunisolar calendar that structured Jewish life during the Second Temple period.

Other writings, including MMT, the Community Rule and Pesher Habakkuk, place calendrical ideas within broader disputes over religious law, worship and Temple authority. Mathematical perfection meets ...

Hasmonean history is combined with the enigma of the Qumran calendar – to solve an ancient mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls • According to the study, the 364-day calendar, a crux of the dispute between ...

A Bedouin huntsman and his dog, climbing on rocky mountainous cliffs above the Dead Sea, spotted a likely prey. The dog chased it into the mouth of a cave where inside, the Bedouin discovered jars ...

For scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the mystery of the 364-day version of the solar calendar discussed extensively in the scrolls found in Qumran has remained an unsolved puzzle for decades. Was ...

Over 60 years after the first excavations at Qumran, researchers from Hebrew University said Wednesday that they identified a twelfth cave near Qumran they believe contained Dead Sea Scrolls until it ...

Since the first discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the faded parchments of Qumran have provided extraordinary insights into the nature of Judaism at the time when Christianity was born. Now, ...

Israeli archaeologist yuval peleg halts his jeep where the jagged Judean hills peter out into a jumble of boulders. Before us, across the flat-calm Dead Sea, the sun rises over the mountains of Jordan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Qumran 364-day calendar may have divided the sect from Jerusalem before seasonal drift and political change ended its use.

The community could then adopt the more practical calendar used at the Temple without entirely surrendering its older beliefs. Under this reconstruction, the 364-day system remained authoritative in ...