The Assyrian calendar (Syriac: ܣܘܼܪܓܵܕ݂ܵܐ ܐܵܬ݂ܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ sūrgāḏā ʾĀṯōrāyā) is a solar calendar used by modern Assyrian people.

Jan 7, 1998 · December 20 is the day we commemorate our first Chirstian King, King Aavgaar Okhooma V (son of Mano). He was an Ashuree king of Edessa (a city/state in modern day northern Syria) around 32 A.D.. He had a mortal sickness (leprosy) and had told Eeshoo (Jesus) in a letter that he had heard a great deal of him and his miracles.

Nov 20, 2018 · Chart and information about the Hebrew lunar calendar in use in the Old Testament era, including the names of the months and the growing seasons.

Calendar - Ancient, Religious, Systems: The lunisolar calendar, in which months are lunar but years are solar—that is, are brought into line with the course of the Sun—was used in the early civilizations of the whole Middle East, except Egypt, and in Greece. The formula was probably invented in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium bce.

This work, by two contributors to this commentary, is primarily concerned with another subject but contains chapter on “Ancient Civil Calendars,” “The Pre-exilic Hebrew Calendar,” and “The Postexilic Jewish Calendar,” also a detailed explanation of the dates of the Elephantine papyri.

Mar 21, 2021 · that the importance of the chronological data given us in the Aramaic finds from Egypt becomes apparent. What they furnish us for this period is a series of dates according to the Jewish calendar, to which are added their more or less precise equivalents in the easily determinable Egyptian calendar.

The proposed Aramaic calendar concerned that arguably is closely related to 4Q208–4Q209 is 4Q318 which is composed of a zodiac calendar, or “selenodromion” that situates the moon’s position in the zodiac for each day of the year in each month.

The Assyrian calendar, also known as the Aramaic calendar, is a lunisolar system still used in Assyrian communities in parts of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. It combines lunar and solar elements to keep the calendar year in sync with the solar year and seasons.

As of April 1, 2008, it is the Assyrian year of 6758. The Assyrian year begins with the first sight of Spring, followed by the other three seasons. Introduced in the 1950s, the modern Assyrian calendar was loosely based on the historical lunisolar Babylonian calendar.

During the 6th century BC Babylonian exile of the Hebrews, the Babylonian month names were adopted into the Hebrew calendar. The Aramaic calendar used in Iraq and the Levant also uses many of the same names for its months, such as Iyyar, Tammuz, Ab, Elul, Tishri, and Adar.