Min's Historical Calendar Of Jesus - Introduction
Dr.Min
INTRODUCTION
Each chapter of this book begins with a succinct
paragraph-summary of itself, followed by pages of
scientific and historical research describing the
chronologies examined in explicit detail with verifiable
citations. This provides the reader with a quick and easy
way to "skim thru" each chapter from the beginning,
enticing the more astute and critical scientist to
carefully study the balance of each chapter as the facts
warrant. The ancient Hebrew calendar is referenced to our
western calendars, and is charted at the end of chapters
where a visual reference to the dates analyzed is useful.
Know that the "Seventy Weeks" prophecy found at Daniel
9:24-27 is demonstrated historically accurate-to-the-day,
i.e. 483 actual, real-time, Hebrew lunisolar calendar
years after the date that the priestly scribe Ezra had
gone forward with Artaxerxes' imperial edict to restore
and build Jerusalem. Lord Jesus quoted Daniel as being
"the prophet" [ref. Mat 24:15; Mark 13:14], a fact which
is cited as the *supreme* authority endorsing Daniel's
autograph as genuine. Thus the balance of this work is
presented as a matter of record, in the spirit of God.
While the secular crowd will oft-digress to frivolous
innuendo (i.e. cavilism) in futile attempts to discredit
the Holy Bible and its message which is the gospel of
Christ-crucified, such inevitably has the antithetical
effect of attracting much-appreciated scrutiny over the
Hebrew & Greek Canon, since the evidence weighs heavily
in the gravity of its merit, and the wisdom of the ages
remains intact, fully intact.
The first edition of this book relied on planetary
positions as calculated using the older high-precision
(untruncated) VSOP87 [Variations Seculaires des Orbites
Planetaires] theory of Bretagnon and Francou, with all
lunar positions calculated using the revised(untruncated)
ELP-2000/82 lunar theory of Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront
[Bureau des Longitudes].
This new and expanded edition uses Astrolog 5.41G with
Swiss Ephemeris (JPL-DE200/405/406) for all astronomical
calculations. At this writing, September 2003, this is the
most reliable and accurate astronomical and astrological
computer software available for any PC running Windows,
and accounts for dynamical time, ecliptic obliquity,
nutation, precession, aberration, and more complex
calculations made using high-precision algorithms and
coefficient tables rendering the significant figures
indicated, yielding accuracy for geocentric positions
comfortably within +/- several arcseconds for all dates
calculated, albeit the Moon's position is especially
difficult to compute, and is probably accurate to no
better than just a few arcminutes, which is still way
more than adequate for the purposes of this historically
unprecedented work.
Geographical location datum preset to Jerusalem, Israel
31N46:48 x 35E13:12 for all astronomical calculations
presented, with local times given in both UT and Jerusalem
Standard Time [JST/EET @ UT +2:00] for convenience and
continuity, noting that local mean time is approximately
20 minutes ahead of EET, or UT +2:20, which is used only
rarely in this book, and only where "LMT" is clearly
indicated, as with both Jesus' and John's natal charts
which are presented in chapters 2 and 3, respectively.
Remember that each day in the lunisolar calendar begins at
sundown the day before, and ends at sundown that same day;
e.g., the Julian calendar date Thursday, September 19, 457
BC is counted as the Hebrew/Jewish calendar date of 1
Ethanim/Tishri 3305, but the ancient Hebrew calendar
reckons that old Julian [Roman] calendar Thursday as
beginning at sundown on the previous day, which is
Wednesday evening in the proleptic Julian calendar. This
"sundown-to-sundown" convention of the scriptures is found
beginning in the Torah [Law of Moses], in the Book of
Genesis chapter 1 verse 5: "And God called the light Day,
and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day." With the evening counted from
sundown to sunrise and the morning counted from sunrise to
sunset, so the Hebrew calendar is always about six hours
ahead of the Roman calendar in terms of what day of the
week it is, a fact which proves invaluable for positively
identifying historical calendar dates only alluded to or
implied in the Bible, notably which lunisolar calendar
dates were established by strictly-observed Torah calendar
rules, which the reader will find is absolutely,
meticulously, observed throughout this book.
Notably the Mayan calendar, which is the most accurate
long-term astronomical calendar in existence, predicted
the conjunction of our winter solstice Sun with the Mayan
Sacred Tree, or the apparent intercept of the galactic and
ecliptic planes at 5 degrees Sagittarius, which great
tropical-sidereal conjunction ends the fifth and last age
of the Sun for this seventh grand precessional year of the
Mayan calendar, and furthermore completes a sabbath of
great precessional years or "7. millenary profoundly
deduced" as Nostradamus so exactly describes it in his
prophetic epistle toward the ill-fated king Henry II of
France. This date is most precisely calculated as Friday,
December 21st, 2012 AD at 11:11:23 UT, with the seven
previous "Natalii Solis Invicti", or Births of the
Sun-Invincible, summarized for the reader's edification:
Body Caelestial Latitude Velocity
Jupiter : 13Tau55'15" - 0:44'34" -0.1184174
Aldebaran : 15Tau00'00" - 5:28'00" alTau
MeanLilith: 16Tau08'19" - 1:30'18" +0.1108440
Saturn : 13Lib40'52" + 2:18'29" +0.0899011
True Node : 0Sco37'43" + 0:00'00" +0.0230194
Venus : 11Sco36'24" + 1:06'30" +1.2496808
Mercury : 19Sco43'08" + 0:24'24" +1.4795023
Gal.Center: 2Sag03'04" - 5:36'34" SgrA*
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/SacredTree: 5Sag00'00" + 0:00'00" __________
\Sun : 5Sag01'12" + 0:00'01" +1.0183180
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Gal-Ecl : 5Sag13'40" + 0:00'00" __________
Solar Apex: 7Sag20'50" +53:25'58" HerA*
Pluto : 13Sag58'10" + 3:20'43" +0.0351116
Mars : 1Cap26'53" - 1:09'51" +0.7809645
Neptune : 5Aqu50'01" - 0:36'39" +0.0220093
Uranus : 9Pis39'40" - 0:42'46" +0.0068411
Moon : 19Pis15'46" + 3:27'34" +12.267681
8TH BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Fri 21 Dec 2012 AD Gregorian
8 Dec 2012 AD Julian
Julian Day 2456283; *1.2.15.0.0.0.0
13.0.0.0.0; 3 Kankin; 4 Ahau
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7TH BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Sat 1 Mar 23,615 BC Gregorian
27 Aug 23,615 BC Julian
Julian Day -6903717; *0.19.10.0.0.0.0
-52.0.0.0.0; 3 Kayab; 4 Ahau
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6TH BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Sun 10 May 49,242 BC Gregorian
15 May 49,241 BC Julian
Julian Day -16263717; *0.16.5.0.0.0.0
-117.0.0.0.0 ;18 Pop; 4 Ahau
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5TH BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Mon 18 Jul 74,869 BC Gregorian
1 Feb 74,867 BC Julian
Julian Day -25623717; *0.13.0.0.0.0.0
-182.0.0.0.0; 18 Zotz; 4 Ahau
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4TH BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Tue 26 Sep 100,496 BC Gregorian
21 Oct 100,494 BC Julian
Julian Day -34983717; *0.9.15.0.0.0.0
-247.0.0.0.0; 18 Yaxkin; 4 Ahau
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3RD BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Wed 4 Dec 126,123 BC Gregorian
9 Jul 126,120 BC Julian
Julian Day -44343717; *0.6.10.0.0.0.0
-312.0.0.0.0; 18 Yax; 4 Ahau
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2ND BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Thu 12 Feb 151,749 BC Gregorian
28 Mar 151,746 BC Julian
Julian Day -53703717; *0.3.5.0.0.0.0
-377.0.0.0.0; 18 Mac; 4 Ahau
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**1ST BIRTH OF THE SUN IN TREE OF LIFE
Fri 22 Apr 177,376 BC Gregorian
14 Dec 177,373 BC Julian
Julian Day -63063717; *0.0.0.0.0.0.0
-442.0.0.0.0; 18 Pax; 4 Ahau
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*calabtun.pictun.baktun.katun.tun.uinal.kin;
**first birth of the sun after tropical years
began circa 200,000 years i.e. four thousand-
hundred vernal and autumnal equinox-times BC.
Compared to the Mayan's and/or Babylonian's awesome
astronomical sophistication, the lunisolar calendar of
Moses was comparatively simple, and obviously of Egyptian
origin, but is still most effective for counting the days,
months and years in harmony with the solar-daily rotation
of the Earth, the synodic-monthly orbit of the Moon, and
the tropical-annual orbit of Earth around the Sun ergo the
Sun relative to Earth and her slowly-precessing rotational
axis. This is the lunisolar cycle, and is used for the
everyday Jewish calendar, and for observing traditional
"holy days" (holidays) as the God of Moses commanded:
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years."--Gen 1:14 AV
While the lunisolar calendar methodology predates Moses by
many many thousands & likely millions of years, we can be
certain that it is far older than just 3800 some-odd years
ago when Moses had introduced it circa 1800 BC. At least,
the Torah calendar of Moses has been continuously in use
by the Hebrew/Jewish people since that time, and with the
holy convocations of the Torah even today being observed
right in season, which sacred observances even Lord Jesus
faithfully practiced from His youth up until the Passover
of 31 AD, at which time He became God's Passover Lamb, and
He was slaughtered. We'll cover much, much more on this
astronomical chronology in the proceeding chapters.
The Julian or old civil calendar was invented by the Greek
scholar and Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes in 44 BC at
the behest of Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar died later that
same year), although this revised and refined version of
the old Roman calendar allegedly established circa 753 BC
[AUC 1/752] by Romulus was not made fully operational
until 2 AD under emperor Augustus. Many subsequent
revisions to the Julian calendar evolved into its
familiar, modern-day version, the International Gregorian
Calendar. The Roman calendar with all its refinements has
always been a "tropical-year to solar-day calendar" only,
ignoring lunar months altogether. Sosigenes had estimated
the length of the solar year to be 365 days and 6 hours.
Those extra 6 hours per year were to be collectively added
as one extra 24-hour day every 4th year, making a 366-day
leap year [cognate to Old Norse hlaupa, "to leap"].
Sosigenes' calendar was started on a leap year retroactive
to 45 BC, but those early leap years were inserted more
often than they should've been, once every three years
through 9 BC. This was corrected by ignoring leap year's
in 5 BC, 1 BC and 4 AD [ref. Macrobius, Saturnalia
I,14,14]. So from 5 AD onward, the Julian calendar
proceeded according to specification--until it was
discovered that the true solar year is about 11 minutes
14 seconds shorter than Sosigenes had estimated, with a
tropical year today calculated at ~365.242199 days in
length. This modest error compounded over time, adding
about 7 extra days per millennium, but the vernal equinox
proved useful as the benchmark for crudely recalibrating
and adjusting the calendar every several hundred years or
so, thus assuring its continued relative accuracy over
time. However, by 1545, the spring equinox--which the
Roman Catholic Church used for determining Easter [Ishtar,
I'star, Isis, Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus]--had moved
entirely ten days ahead of its proper date, rather, the
date had "skipped" ten days beyond the actual equinox. So
in December of that year, the Council of Trent authorized
Pope Paul III to take action, but it wasn't until the
election of Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Buoncompagni,
1502-1585) in 1572 that a formal proposal was solicited
from famed Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius
(1537-1612), which he'd compiled based on suggestions of
astronomer and physician Luigi Lilio (?- 1576), and most
especially, Clavius based his findings on the meticulous
research of the 7th century Anglo-Saxon monk, scholar,
historian and theologian, the venerable St. Bede (673-
735 AD). This proposal/papal bull officially appeared in
February 1582, but the Brit's didn't adopt the Gregorian
version until March 25, 1752. This calendar is today known
as the International Standard Gregorian Calendar, and is
becoming the de facto calendar throughout the world.
But there's one more calendar you'd do well to familiarize
yourself with before proceeding with this book, and that
is the Julian (Fr. "Julien") dating system commonly used
by astronomers. Julian dates mustn't be confused with the
old Julian calendar of Sosigenes, but was named for the
classical scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) by
his son Joseph Justis Scaliger(1540-1609), a prolific
writer whose works were published posthumously in 1610.
Among Joseph's crowning achievements was a scientific
study of previous calendars entitled 'Opus de emendatione
tempore' dated 1583, notably one year after the Gregorian
calendar was introduced. Briefly, the first Julian Day of
the Julian Period -- or Scaliger Cycle of 7980 years --
was assigned by Scaliger as day ZERO (0), starting
precisely at 12:00:00 AM GMT January 1, 4713 BC by the
proleptic [i.e. subsequently leap-year corrected] Julian
calendar. All astronomical calculations presented herein
include reference to Scaliger's Julian dating system, but
the calendar is 12 hours later plus one calendar year
later than this for all "BC" calendar dates, since
astronomers include the year "zero" which is 1 BC; e.g.
- - -4712-01-01 is equivalent to 12 PM UT January 1, 4713 BC.
Thereby Julian dating system numbers are computed by
adding the number of days from -4712-01-01 plus any
mathematical fraction of that day counting from noon,
plus or minus. This is because Scaliger had originally
designated 12 AM GMT as xx.00, but it is convention for
all astronomical calculations to recognize xx.00 as 12 PM
(noon) UT as beginning any Julian day, with xx.25 as 6 PM
UT, xx.50 as 12 AM UT, etc, since astronomers most often
work at night, and the old midnight-to-midnight reckoning
was confusing to astronomers who did calculations by hand.
It is worthy of mention also that the chronological dating
system used by historians is rendered as simple integers;
e.g., anytime between 12:00 AM UT Thursday September 19,
457 BC through 11:59 PM UT corresponds to Julian Day
1554766, but in astronomer's terminology, that same Julian
date, as reckoned in Jerusalem (since that's where we'll
stay focused throughout this entire book), would be Julian
Day [hereinafter abbreviated to 'JD'] 1554766.00000 only
at 2:00:00 PM Jerusalem Standard Time, since Jerusalem
time is always UT +2:00. In other words, 12:00 PM (noon)
in Jerusalem is only 10:00 AM in Greenwich, England, so
12:00 PM in Jerusalem on September 19, 457 BC corresponds
to JD 1554765.91667, since 22/24's of 1 = 0.9166666666667,
truncated to five decimal places for within one second per
day accuracy, yields 0.91667, which fraction is then added
to the previous Julian Day.
Enough with all this astro-chronological jargon you say?
Then let the reckoning begin...
See Historical Calendar of Jesus Chapter 1 for Continuation...
Daniel Joseph Min
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> INTRODUCTION
>
> Each chapter of this book begins with a succinct
> paragraph-summary of itself, followed by pages of
> scientific and historical research describing the
> chronologies examined in explicit detail with verifiable
> citations.
I see you got a promotion.
Just how long did it take to work your way up to "Senior Professor" at Astro U.?
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