JMSchattke wrote:Well, it's time to
play with a lunar calendar.
Here's one:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/moontoolw/So, a quick
Hebrew -> Gregorian calculation for the destruction
of the Temple, 9 Av 3830 gives us Apx. 1 Aug 70 AD; the
previous visible new moon being 27 July with 2%. This
Julian date is 1746833. Today's Julian date is 2454495, last
cyclical sabbath would be 2454491 or 2454492, depending
on where you are on the planet. 707658 days is 101094 weeks
exactly. The destruction of the temple in AD70 occurred on
a cyclical sabbath.
Please refrain from saying that that date proves lunar
sabbaths in the future. It does nothing of the sort.
RESPONSE; The temple was not destroyed on the
ninth day as you suggested, but on the
eighth which was a weekly Sabbath.
according to the following.
One example is found in "the Talmud the Steinsaltz Edition",
Volume XIV Tractate Ta'anit Part II ( 1995 by Israel Institute
for Talmudic Publications and Milta Books), Page 206: "when
the Temple was destroyed for the first time at the hands of
Nebuzaradan [captain of the guard], that day was the ninth
of Av, and
it was the day following Shabbat, and it was
the year following the Sabbatical Year.... And similarly when
the Temple was destroyed a second time at the hands of Titus,
the destruction occurred on the very same day Notice the ninth of Av is the day
following Shabbat, which
conclusively puts the weekly Sabbath on the
8th day of the
month, when using deductive reasoning. The above is no
coincidence that these weekly Sabbaths were on the eighth
day of the scriptural month. There has never been a pinpointed
weekly Sabbath found, in ancient history or scripture, that was
not by the phases of the moon. This is an absolute.
When a date goes down in history such as the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, George Washington birthday,
Pearl Harbor, 911, etc. which are no where near as momentous
events as the destruction of the Temple,
it is not hard to look back and pinpoint these dates.
Please present
your documentation for the ninth.