Enoch's Calendar and the 364-Day Year Calculation

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1. Genesis “Genesis 5:23 (YLT) — And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years.”
2. Easton's Bible Dictionary “Easton's Bible Dictionary: Year — Heb. shanah, meaning "repetition" or "revolution" (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jew”
3. Smith's Bible Dictionary “Smith's Bible Dictionary: Year — the highest ordinary division of time. Two years were known to, and apparently used by, the Hebrews. + A year of 360 days appears to have been in use in Noah's time. + The year used by the Hebrews from the time of the exodus may: be said to have been then instituted, since a current month, Abib, on the 14th day of which the first Passover was kept, was then made the first month of the year. The essential characteristics of this year can be clearly determined, though we cannot fix those of any single year. It was essentially solar for the offering of productions”
4. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 88: I given to thee, to thy children, and thy posterity, that they may transmit to their children, for generations for ever, this wisdom in their thoughts; and that those who comprehend _it_ may not slumber, but hear with their ears; that they may learn this wisdom, and be deemed worthy of eating _this_ wholesome food. 4. Blessed are all the righteous; blessed all who walk in _the paths of_ righteousness; in whom no crime _is found_, as in sinners, when all their days are numbered. 5. With respect to the progress of the sun in heaven, it enters an”
5. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 81: belonging to the sun in five years; all the days belonging to each year of the five years, when completed, amount to three hundred and sixty-four days; and to the sun and stars belong six days; six days in each of the five years; _thus_ thirty days belong to them; 12. So that the moon has thirty days less than the sun and stars. 13. The moon brings on all the years exactly, that their stations may come neither too forwards nor too backwards a single day; but that the years may be changed with correct precision in three hundred and sixty-four d”
6. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 86: and every week. _He showed me_ also the decrease of the moon, which is effected in the sixth gate; for in that sixth gate is its light consumed. 3. From this is the beginning of the month; and its decrease is effected in the sixth gate in its period, until a hundred and seventy-seven days are completed; according to the mode of computation by weeks,[183] twenty-five _weeks_ and two days. 4. _Its period_ is less than that of the sun, according to the ordinance of the stars, by five days in one half year[184] precisely. 5. When that _their_ visi”
7. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 89: year _into_ three hundred and sixty-four _days_, with the leaders of a thousand, who distinguish between the days, as well as between the four additional ones; which, _as_ conductors, divide the four quarters of the year. 12. These leaders of a thousand are in the midst of the conductors, and the conductors are added each behind his station, and their conductors make the separation. These are the names of the conductors, who separate the four quarters of the year, who are appointed _over them_: Melkel, Helammelak, 13. Meliyal, and Narel. 14. A”
8. Genesis (Baptist/Reformed) “John Gill on Genesis 5:18: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. A year of years, living as many years as there are days in a year; not half the age of the rest of the patriarchs: our poet (t) calls him one of middle age; though his being taken away in the midst of his days was not a token of divine displeasure, but of favour, as follows; see Psa 55:23. (t) Milton's Paradise Lost, B. 11. l. 665.”
9. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 78: returning to the east proceeds by the third gate for thirty days, setting in the west at the third gate. 27. At that period the night is lengthened from the day during thirty mornings, and the day is curtailed from the day during thirty days; the night being ten parts precisely, and the day eight parts. 28. The sun now goes from the third gate, as it sets in the third gate in the west; but returning to the east, it proceeds by the second gate of the east for thirty days. 29. In like manner also it sets in the second gate in the west of heaven.”
10. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 77: a flame, when they are opened at their proper periods. 12. When the sun rises in heaven, it goes forth through this fourth gate thirty days, and by the fourth gate in the west of heaven on a level with it descends. 13. During that period the day is lengthened from the day, and the night curtailed from the night for thirty days. And then the day is longer by two parts than the night. 14. The day is precisely ten parts, and the night is eight. 15. The sun[170] goes forth through this fourth gate, and sets in it, and turns to the fifth gate durin”
11. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 11: observer of the heavens. He describes the eastern and western parts of heaven, where the sun and moon rise and set, as divided each into six different gates, through which those orbs of light pass at their respective periods. In the denomination of these gates he begins with that through which the sun passes at the winter solstice; and this he terms the _first_ gate. It of course answers to the sign of Capricornus; and is the southernmost point to which the sun reaches, both at rising and setting. The next gate, at which the sun arrives in its”
12. Sefaria (Jewish (Rationalist)) “Abraham Ibn Ezra on Genesis 8:13: THE WATERS WERE DRIED UP FROM OFF THE EARTH. Only the surface of the earth dried; the soil itself was swampy and hence not yet firm enough to walk upon. The earth did not fully dry until later. Those who insist that Noah used a lunar calendar because Scripture tells us that he spent a year and ten days in the ark and the ten days refer to the excess of the solar year over a lunar year are pressing a point. 35 A lunar year plus 10 days equals a solar year. Cf. Bereshit Rabbah , Chap. 33:7, and Rashi’s commentary, which states that the flood and its aftermath la”
13. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 79: this progress the day is daily lengthened, and the night greatly shortened.[174] 45. This is the law and progress of the sun, and its turning when it turns back, turning during sixty days,[175] and going forth. This is the great everlasting luminary, that which he names the sun for ever and ever. 46. This also is that which goes forth a great luminary, and which is named after its peculiar kind, as God commanded. 47. And thus it goes in and out, neither slackening nor resting; but running on in its chariot by day and by night. It shines with a”
14. Mishneh Torah (Maimonides) (Jewish (Rabbinic)) “Mishneh Torah (Maimonides), Mishneh Torah%2C Sanctification of the New Month 8:10: There are certain indications upon which one can rely, so that one will not err regarding the calculation of the order of the months of a year. These principles are based on the fundamental principles of the fixed calendar and the determination of the days on which Rosh HaShanah will be established and those that will cause it to be postponed, as we explained previously. Whenever Rosh HaShanah is celebrated on a Tuesday, [the months of] the year will [proceed] in order. [This applies regardless of whether the ye”
15. Introduction “1 Enoch (Book of Enoch), Introduction, section 85: the twelfth day it decreases a third part; on the thirteenth day it decreases a second part; on the fourteenth day it decreases a half of its seventh part; and on the fifteenth day the whole remainder of its light is consumed. 10. On stated months the moon has twenty-nine days. 11. It also has a period of twenty-eight days. 12. Uriel likewise showed me another regulation, when light is poured into the moon, how it is poured into it from the sun. 13. All the time that the moon is in progress with its light, it is poured _into it_ in the presenc”