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C — Calendars, Liturgies and Prayers
Chapter 5
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A fascinating, but unfortunately fragmentary, calendar indicates the passage of the moon through the various Zodiacal signs during the successive months of the year from Nisan to Adar. The fragment begins with the month of Tevet, continues with Tishri and ends with Adar. The last four lines of col. have preserved a brontologion, i.e. prediction of prodigies or ill-omens by means of an interpretation of the sound of thunder on certain specified days of the month. The actual prediction of woe survives only at the end of the text in lines 8-9. It takes the form of a famine and the invasion of the country by a conquering foreign army. For the editio princeps, see J. C. Greenfield and M. Sokoloff, DJD, XXXVI, 259-74.
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VII... and on and Pisces; on and Aries; on and Taurus; on and and Gemini; on and Cancer; on and Leo; on and and Virgo; on and Libra vacat Tishri. On and Scorpio; on and Sagittarius; on and and Capricorn; on and on and Cancer; on and Leo; on and Virgo; on and and Libra; on and Scorpio; on and Sagittarius; on and and Capricorn; on and Aquarius. vacat Shevat. On and Pisces; on and Aries; on and and Taurus; on and Gemini; on and Cancer; on and and Leo; on and Virgo; on and Libra; on and and Scorpio; on and Sagittarius; on and Capricorn; on and and Aquarius; on and Pisces vacat Adar. On and Aries; on and Taurus; on [and and 7
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Gemini]; on and Cancer; on and Leo; on and and Virgo; on and Libra; on and on Scorpio; on and Sagittarius; on and Capricorn; on and Aquarius; on and and Pisces; on and Aries. vacat If in Taurus it thunders.. and hard labour for the country and sword in the court of the king and in the country of.. to the Arabs.. starvation and they will pillage one another.. vacat If in Gemini it thunders, terror and affliction by strangers and by..
