A Sincere Comparison Of The Ancient Of Times' Enoch (Solar) And Luni-Solar Calendars
Part 1 - Laying Bare the Enoch Calendar.. with Rabbi Asher Meza
Published on Sep 16, 2018
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdoWbmwxYEo
Web page: www.TorahJudaism.com
Part 2 -Calendars and the Metonic Cycle
Published on Sep 13, 2018
By The House Of David
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAbmfaMPeuA
This presentation reviews and evaluates several solar and lunisolar calendars, as well as the Metonic cycle employed by the Hillel II calendar. Solar calendars include: Enoch calendar, Jubilees calendar, and Qumran calendar. Lunisolar calendars include: World's Last Chance calendar, Hillel II calendar, and Karaite calendar.
Please note: The downloadable pdf files of the New Moon Series located at:
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tinyurl.com%2FBeth-MoonSeriesPDF&redir_token=W5EzKogZrT4mlRH-MD3L6RJoQhR8MTU2Njk3MTk0NUAxNTY2ODg1NTQ1&event=video_description&v=WAbmfaMPeuA
contain corrections for this corresponding New Moon video series here on YouTube at:
https://www.tinyurl.com/Beth-MoonSeries
Most corrections were grammatic in nature. However, there are a few places where "sundown" should be "sunset"...-Beth Mehaffey
Part 3 - WLC’s position on the Enoch Calendar
Why does World Last Chance (WLC) not accept the Book of Enoch's calendar?
https://www.worldslastchance.com/luni-solar-calendar/why-does-wlc-not-accept-book-of-enoch-calendar.html
Article below is linked above:
Question: Why does WLC not accept the Book of Enoch's calendar?
Answer: While the Book of Enoch is very insightful and intriguing, WLC believes there to be several insurmountable problems with adopting the calendar it endorses.
Problem #1: The section about the heavenly luminaries contained within the Book of Enoch was potentially written by a different author1 and at a later date than some of the other sections. While the Book of Enoch that we have today appears as one book, this was not the case at Qumran (the location of the Dead Sea Scrolls). The version we have today was translated from the Ethiopic (Ge'ez) version, which was itself likely a translation from the Aramaic or Hebrew.2
The Ethiopic version of 1 Enoch includes the following:
Book of Watchers (chaps. 1-36)
Parables of Enoch (chaps. 37-71)
Book of the Heavenly Luminaries (chaps. 72-82)
Dream Visions of Enoch (chaps. 83-90)
Apocalypse of Enoch (chaps. 91-105)
Birth of Noah (chaps. 106-107)
Appendix (chap. 108)
Only the following, however, were discovered together at Qumran in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
Book of Watchers
Dream Visions of Enoch
Apocalypse of Enoch
Birth of Noah
This would suggest that the Book of Enoch at Qumran did not contain the Book of the Heavenly Luminaries and the Book of Parables.
Judging from the Qumran fragments, their 'Book of Enoch' was made up of the Book of Watchers, the Dream Visions of Enoch, the Apocalypse of Enoch, the Birth of Noah, and possibly the Book of Giants.
The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries, at least at Qumran, was separate from the rest of the book and was probably not added to the book of Enoch until after the first century C.E. . . .
No trace of the Parables of Enoch has been discovered at Qumran and it is widely considered today to be a composition of the later first century C.E.3
[Note: In 1956, a Dead Sea Scroll was allegedly found that contains the whole Book of Enoch written in Aramaic. This scroll is said to be in the possession of private investors. Its contents have not been disclosed to the public.]
None of the Qumran manuscripts of Astronomical Enoch preserve any of the other six divisions of 1 Enoch, so it appears that Astronomical Enoch did indeed circulate separately from the other Enochic literature.4
Not only was the Book of Luminaries separate from the other books at Qumran, but it was apparently an earlier, longer version5 than what is contained in the Ethiopic canon and subsequent translations. That means that the translation being promoted today is not exactly the same as what was found at Qumran.
Among the Qumran scrolls were found:
• seven fragmentary manuscripts of parts of the Book of Enoch that together yield about 20 percent of the original Aramaic text,
• another four manuscripts that form an earlier, longer version of the Book of the heavenly Luminaries, and
• another nine scrolls, extremely fragmentary, that constitute a hitherto little-known story of Enoch that scholars call the Book of Giants.6
Unlike the books contained in the canon of Scripture, we do not have multiple harmonious copies of Astronomical Enoch that can today be studied in their entirety and in their original language. This means that adherents must rely solely upon man's translation7 for their understanding. That being the case, it would be foolish and irresponsible to base one's reckoning of Heaven's feast days upon the Book of Enoch alone.8
