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Nisan as the month of victory (1)

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Autumn New Year’s festival (Tišri/autumnal equinox)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.05 Autumn New Year’s festival (Tišri/autumnal equinox)
Spring New year’s festival (Nisan/vernal equinox)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.01 Spring New year’s festival (Nisan/vernal equinox)

Keywords
calendars

Period
4th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Christian-Syriac poets

Text
Ephrem Syrus, Hymns on the Resurrection 3.1, 3.14:
Nisan the victorious month, who was sent by the Victorious One, was resplendently victorious in Egypt, delivering and escorting out the Bride of the King. … Nisan is the victorious month, surrounded by all the days, encircled by all the months, on its left and on its right, half the months one side, and half the other, while opposite, standing at a distance, is the rich month Tišri.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Ephrem Syrus, Hymns on the Resurrection 3.1
Ephrem Syrus, Hymns on the Resurrection 3.14

Bibliography

Brock 1999, VIII 185-186

Brock, Sebastian. From Ephrem to Romanos. Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity. London: Variorum Reprints 1999.

Amar Annus

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