I don't think he has made all the connections yet. In the Zadok/Hanok, Appointed Times calendar, I don't see an 'intercalation' in the classic sense (that of adding days in a stretch-to-fit attempt to make the calendar work). Instead I see a natural progression that is founded on Solar/Celestial mechanics that always harmonizes at the Vernal Equinox. Am I wrong?
What impressed me most about his work was the deep-dive word studies focused on the Hebrew first and the natural translational bias to and from the Greek, both linguistically and culturally. He seems very talented in that regard.
There is a 186 year cycle embedded in the text of the genealogies which strongly suggests that the ancients knew about this cycle. It is not something anyone would know about or even consider outside of calendrical observations and calculations, and one would not know about it at all if the true length of the solar tropical was not known.
The drift between the 186 year cycle and the solar tropical year in 186 years amounts to a mere 4/100ths of 1 day, (.04). After 10 cycles, which are 1860 years, the cycle falls behind by .40 of 1 day, (10×.04 = .40), which is still less than 1/2 of 1 day. After 20 cycles, which are 3720 years, the cycle has fallen behind the solar tropical year by .80 of 1 day. And after 25 cycles, which are 4650 years, the calendar has at last fallen behind the solar tropical year by 1 full day, (25×.04 = 1).
Mean Solar Tropical Year: 365.2421897 Days
Leap Week Cycle: 186 Years
6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-5 = 186 Years
186×365.2421897 = 67,935.04 Days
186×364 = 67,704 Days +231 Days = 67,935 Days (7×33 Leap Weeks = 231 Days)
Leap Week Correction Cycle: 185 Years (Cycle 26)
6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 5-6-5, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-6, 6-5-5 = 185 Years
What are the chances of the following?
All the days that Adam lived are 930 years:
Septuagint Chronology:
5953 BC — Adam
5953 BC −930 (Adam) = 5022-23 BC — 5 Cycles (5×186 = 930) - Leap Year
5953 BC −1488 (Henok translated) = 4466-65 BC — 8 Cycles (8×186 = 1488) - Leap Year
There is much more where this came from: but this cycle is only like a sort of background check for the Yobel and its related cycles. For instead of having a one week intercalation alternating between five and six years, it is much simpler to have an intercalation every seven years, but to do that, the other related cycles are necessary in order to maintain the accuracy of the calendar. Every shmittah year contains a one week intercalation, and every yobel contains a one week intercalation, and there is also a seventy year cycle which contains a one week intercalation every seventy years, and these cycles maintain the solar tropical year with the 186 year cycle to near perfection.
All of the intercalations including the four days are in the Torah: people simply cannot easily see them for what they are. The first year of the Exodus is a leap year, and it is also a seventy year cycle, but the second week of intercalation technically falls in the next year because it is according to the Noah flood calendar, and thus there is a leap week at the beginning, seven yamim which are forty yom and forty laylah, and this week is at the time of the encampment at Rephidim and Massah, and the second leap week is at the end of the flood year calendar, in the same week as the first, (at the end of the second hodesh, and therefore technically in the next year, according to the new rule in Exodus 12:1-2), and this second leap week in a seventy year cycle is the time at Taberah and Kibroth haTaawah, and Maryam is shut out of the camp for seven days with leprosy. All these evil days are blotted out of the calendar, for Elohim is merciful and gracious, and they therefore become intercalations, and in former times, fast days. The day that Mosheh spoke amiss was the day he went up to mount Nebo and died according to the commanedment, 1/7, the intercalation of the first month. Note also that Yisrael departed from mount Sinai in the second year, in the 20th of the second hodesh, (Num 10:11), and from there the chronology follows the flood calendar, even to the forty days from firstripe grapes when the spies doubled down on the evil report the next day after returning, (the people wept all night), which was the seventh of the seventh month and is therefore stricken from the calendar.
Eleven days from Horeb the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-Barnea, (Deut 1:2), that is seven plus four, and what does Kedesh Barnea mean? Kedesh is often used for bad things and typically a devotee, like a pagan worshipper of a false god, but it also means someone or something devoted to destruction. Look up H5128
נוּעַ, (and
bar), Kedesh-Barnea very likely has a sod meaning something akin to devoting to destruction transgressions, thus, eleven intercalation days to devote the transgressions, sins, or
wanderings, (nua), to destruction, that is, eleven days to Kadesh Barnea: four single day intercalations and seven for the leap week when it is a leap year.
I hope this does more good rather than cause confusion: I am attempting to pack way too much information into a single post but I don't want to start posting scripture walls.
) this portion of Enoch 74 makes much more sense:
