Full moon

[rlvaughn]

I am neither a mathematician nor a scientist, and something just dawned on me while recently studying the feasts of Israel. (Maybe I slept through class that day. )

If Israel's months were thirty days (and I think they were) would there not generally have been a full moon in the middle of each month?

 

[just-want-peace]

I am neither a mathematician nor a scientist, and something just dawned on me while recently studying the feasts of Israel. (Maybe I slept through class that day. )

If Israel's months were thirty days (and I think they were) would there not generally have been a full moon in the middle of each month?

I had to give this a "FUNNY" rating simply because it's something I've never thought of, BUT, it's exactly the type thing I probably would have if I lived another few decades!!

 

[canadyjd]

I am neither a mathematician nor a scientist, and something just dawned on me while recently studying the feasts of Israel. (Maybe I slept through class that day. )

If Israel's months were thirty days (and I think they were) would there not generally have been a full moon in the middle of each month?

I don’t actual know, but I do find it interesting.

“Time” was measured by lunar cycles (full moon) and solar cycles (longest day/night).

Years were measured by the reign of kings (in the third year of king so and so)

So, if the king began his reign in the 5th full moon since the winter solstice, does the 2nd year of his reign begin with the next winter solstice or the 5th full moon that follows?

Additionally, our seconds, minutes and hours are the function of mathematics. The reason we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours a day is that mathematicians believed the number 12 was better as a base number than 10, because more numbers could divide into 12.

If they had chosen 10, we could have 50 seconds in a minute, 50 minutes in an hour and 30 hours a day.

peace to you

 

[rlvaughn]

"Full moon" is not mentioned, as such, in the King James Bible, and apparently not much in any English Bible. It appears twice in ASV and three times in NIV (Proverbs 7:20; Psalm 81:3; Job 26:9).

 

[kathleenmariekg]

A lot of Jewish women have a lot of rituals around the moon cycles. They don't have an agenda to announce them to Christian males, but I have been very aware of some of these rituals for awhile.

Some of these rituals can overlap with pagan ones or women can be ACCUSED of this.

The moon is important to Jewish women.

 

[Salty]

... and something just dawned on me ...

I know what you mean - just the other day, I was thinking about how the sun rose every day - and one morning - it dawned on me

Sorry - couldn't resist it!

and now back to your serious discussion

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

"Full moon" is not mentioned, as such, in the King James Bible, and apparently not much in any English Bible. It appears twice in ASV and three times in NIV (Proverbs 7:20; Psalm 81:3; Job 26:9).

Perhaps that's because the new moon was the significant point to mark. But of course a full moon must occur between them.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

I know what you mean - just the other day, I was thinking about how the sun rose every day - and one morning - it dawned on me ...

Ah, yes. When the dawning of a full moon is in view, you have achieved a poetic milestone, or reached the outer limits and entered a special twilight zone of episodic proportions. Well done, RLV.

 

[Deacon]

In Hebrew the word יָרֵחַ, (yareach) means both “moon“ and “month”.

Compare Deuteronomy 33:14 in the NASB and Robert Alter’s translation.

And with the choice yield of the sun,
And with the choice produce of the months.
NASB95​

and from the bounty of yield of the sun
and from the bounty of crop of the moon,
Alter​

A new moon appears every 29.5 days
A lunar year is 354 to 360 days

So each year the Hebrew lunar calendar moved the seasons further and further away away from a solar year.

This was corrected during the diaspora in Babylon where some very accurate calendar calculations were available.

Rob