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The origin of 365-day solar year (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
11 Language, communication, libraries and education

 		Keywords
calendars
Period
9th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Synkellos, Chronographia 377:
… the reckoning of lunar years that they (= Jews) have received in their tradition is based on the Paschal rule and the full moon in the first month of Nisan. Since the Greeks, on the other hand, got their knowledge of this tradition after it was brought by the patriarch Abraham (so it is reported) from the Chaldeans to the Egyptians, the Greeks followed the Egyptians in reckoning a year of 365 days.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Synkellos, Chronographia 377

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 450Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Amar Annus


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