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From: "John Davis" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT (or not): Bible Genealogy
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:44:09 -0800
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Thanks Robert,

This kind of helps validate my point that it is all do-able if all the
parts and pieces could conceivably be assembled if one set out with a
clear goal in mind.

Also, thanks for the info. re. the length of years. I used to belong to
the old Worldwide Church of God and they actually observed the Holy Days
& Festivals until quite recently, but I was never knowledgeable of all
the finer details of how the years and months were computed. But, with
that background, and knowing that there were algorithms extant to get
the days, years, etc. for any period of history, I figured that it could
all be put together as part of TMG. Which was my point, with that point,
per se, not being off-topic at all. More of a wish-list item and
probably quite important to some. I, for one, would use it if it ever
became available. It would definitely be a selling point for me if I was
in the market for a good genealogy program, especially if it was
available nowhere else.

It might even sell enough extra copies of the program certain types of
researchers/archeologists/historians/Bible buffs/etc./etc., to pay for
the work involved in programming it into the system (hint, hint) ;-).

John Davis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert E. Heyman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT: Bible Genealogy


> I started doing this using as a source a Hebrew book called "Etz
Chaim"
> (Tree of Life).
> I haven't done any work on it in quite some time. I used the Jewish
> calendar, starting
> at year 1 for creation.
>
> But I would like to clarify some points about John's posting about the
> Jewish calendar.
> Our year is not 360 days long (that would be way too simple:-)).
> The years are 353, 354, or 355 days long, depending on making sure
certain
> holidays don't fall on certain days of the week (details are beyond
the
> scope of this
> forum). As John said, we have leap years on 7 years of every 19 year
> cycle. The
> years are the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years. Leap
> years add
> an extra 30 day month.
>
> There is most certainly an algorithm to convert the Jewish calendar to
> the Gregorian
> (probably several). Probably the best known is due to the German
> mathematician
> Gauss. The algorithm can be found at
> http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/docs/gauss.txt (among other
places).
> Warning - it's quite mathematical....
>
> Robert
>
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