Show I KEY EY TO ANCIENT CALENDAR FOUND Recently Discovered Hebrew Documents Solve Time Measurement Special Ca J nd r. r April 4 A. A A j to I ancient calendar hat ham just Justi been rc dit p li E Jl 5 l ll n. n per rr read b rore the Royal en 4 t f nl UC w by Ity which i Ie linn hn b been en tho ho of or among among- tho the Israelites Israel Israel- Israelites ites In fn the tho time of or r In the Book Dook or of Jeremiah It Is Js re recorded ro- ro j corded that after tho the overthrow ow of oC the Jewish monarchy b by a n number of tho the principal inhabitants I who were sero left loft fled lied Into E Egypt Some of oC these It appears from recently translated d papyri foun founded ed an important import Import- ant colony at the cataract cataract Sy Sy- Sy eno ene the modern now famous as the site te of the tho great Nile lIe dam translated papyri TJ founded an Import- Import and translated recently b by Professor Sa co an and Mr Cowley Cowle contains contracts contracts con con- tracts dated according to both the Egyptian and Jewish calendars As tho Eg Egyptian calendar is Js perfectly well known to us it is now possible to reconstruct reconstruct re re- ro- ro construct the Jewish calendar Mr 11 Knobel's reconstruction shows hows that the Jewish calendar in use at tho the period In was one derived not from actual observations of oC the tho first appearance of oC the new moon but from ca calculation icu tat 10 n. n Th This Is calculation I at Ion was clearl clearly based upon a knowledge of the fact that 19 solar years contain an exact exact exact ex ex- ex- ex act number of months months months-a a fact made use of or In the olden G Number of ot the prayer book tables for Cor finding Easter The discovery of oC this cycle cycles is s usually ascribed to Meton the Greek areek but It is now clear that It was wasn In n regular use among the Jews long before beCore his time I |