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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.Packer, George Nichols

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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

Name: Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.
Author: Packer, George Nichols

Packer, George Nichols

Calendar; Jewish calendar

_Sacred Year._             _Civil Year._
  Nisan                 30 | Tisri                 30
  Iyar                  29 | Hesvan                29
  Sivan                 30 | Kislev                30
  Tamuz                 29 | Tebet                 29
  Ab                    30 | Sebat                 30
  Elul                  29 | Adar                  30
  Tisri                 30 | 2d Adar, Embolismic   29
  Hesvan                29 | Nisan                 30
  Kislev                30 | Iyar                  29
  Tebet                 29 | Sivan                 30
  Sebat                 30 | Tamuz                 29
  Adar                  30 | Ab                    30
  2d Adar, Embolismic   29 | Elul                  29


TABLE II. HEBREW MONTHS.

  Nisan,  March 11th     or April 11th
  Iyar,   April 11th     "  May 10th
  Sivan,  May 10th       "  June 9th
  Tamuz,  June 9th       "  July 9th
  Ab,     July 9th       "  August 7th
  Elul,   August 7th     "  September 5th
  Tisri,  September 5th  "  October 5th
  Hesvan, October 6th    "  November 4th
  Kislev, November 4th   "  December 3d
  Tebet,  December 3d    "  January 2d
  Sebat,  January 3d     "  February 10th
  Adar,   February 10th  "  March 12th

The charts on the three following pages are used to illustrate the
correspondence of the Hebrew months with our own. Each chart represents
the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun or real path of the
Earth, also the names of the months as they occur in their seasons. The
figures represent the days of the month on which the new moons of the
Hebrew calendar fall. These charts represent the month and the day of the
month on which both the Sacred and the Civil year begins and ends for
three successive years. Hence it may be seen that by intercalating a month
every three years the new moons are restored, very nearly, to the place
they occupied three years before.


CHART I.

[Illustration: This chart represents the day of the month on which all the
new moons fall in the year 1891-92. The sacred year commenced with the new
moon of Nisan on the 9th of April, and the civil year with the new moon of
Tisri on the 3d of October, 1891, and ended respectively with the 28th of
March and the 21st of September, 1892.]


CHART II.

[Illustration: This chart represents the day of the month on which all the
new moons fall in the year 1892-93. It may be here seen that the year
begins and ends about eleven days earlier than the year preceding, also
that all the new moons fall eleven days earlier than they did in the
preceding year.]


CHART III.

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