Difference Between Gregorian And Jewish Calendar?

[Scott Hutchinson]

Ok for the Hebriac roots scholars here,what are the main differences bewtween a Gregorian And A Jewish Calendar ?
This is of importance when looking at time in the Bible I understand.
Somehow the title got chopped off,perhpas a kind admin,can help the title to get corrected.

[Brother Price]

Yeah, seriously! I mean, I did not know there was a difference between a C in Gregoria(?) and one in Judah.

:ursofunny

[James Griffin]

Scott

Jewish calendar gets a little complicated. For example, not every year has same number of months.

I'll see if I can find a link for ya...

[Scott Hutchinson]

I guess a middle C,is in the middle of the keyboard no matter where you are.

[Scott Hutchinson]

I have read the differences before,but I don't understand it as good as I would like to.

[berkeley]

Dude, wiki it!!

[Scott Hutchinson]

I have done that before,but I thought perhaps one of the great teachers here could explain it to us in simple terms.

[berkeley]

The Gregorian calendar is generally used synonymously with the Christian and Western calendar. The Gregorian version, however, was actually named after Pope Gregory XIII. It has a year comprised of 12 months and 365 days, 366 in a leap year, which occurs by adding a day in February every four years. While the Gregorian calendar is based on the Julian calendar — the calendar was introduced around 45 BCE by Julius Caesar after consulting an astronomer — the Gregorian calendar is also based on the year of Christ’s birth.

The Gregorian calendar sought to improve on its predecessors. The purpose was to have a more regular format than the lunar calendars and Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar took the place of the Julian calendar around the end of the 16th Century.


The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar and is based on creation which is said to have occurred — around 3760 BCE according to the Western Calendar. The Jewish calendar, or the Hebrew calendar, has anywhere from 353 to 385 days, and 12 months, 13 in a leap year. Months have 29 or 30 days: Nissan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar. In a leap year Adar I is inserted after Shevat, and the existing month of Adar is called Adar II — the thirteenth month. While the Western and Islamic calendars have a new year beginning with the first month, the new year according to the Jewish calendar begins in the seventh, not first, month of the year.

Another way these types of calendars differ is when the new day begins. In the Julian, Gregorian, Western and Christian calendars, the day begins at midnight. The Islamic and Jewish calendars, however, begin at sundown.



per the website

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-the-western-islamic-and-jewish-calendars.htm

[Scott Hutchinson]

Thanks Bro.Berk.