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. . . «p3 BB>n Dy talon nx pan« DnKtP. Thus said [Judas] the Galilean,
'
I protest against you, O Pharisees, because you inscribe in the documents the name of the ruler,
together with the Divine Name, i. e. by dating the documents according to the reign of Caesar or the Herodian dynasty, you recognize the suzerainty of a power other than God.
' The Pharisees replied, ' We protest against thee, O Galilean [Judas], for ye, too, write the name of the ruler on the same page with the Divine Name, i. e. when in the scroll of the Torah you write Pharaoh king of Egypt, by the side of the Divine Name.' XXVI. The 7th day thereof (Kislev) is a holiday.
The Megillah in this instance does not indicate the reason for this holiday. The Scholiast explains that it
commemorated the death of Herod (I). A critical examination shows this conjecture of the Scholiast to be untenable.
For it can be proved clearly that the 7th of Kislev was not the date of King Herod's death.
From Antiq. XVII, 8. 3. 9. 3, and Bell. Iud. II, 1. 1-3, it is plainly to be inferred that Herod died not long before
Passover. It is stated there that Archelaus, after the seven days of mourning and seclusion, repaired to the Temple
about the time when the people flocked to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. The 7th of Kislev is seventeen weeks
before the Nisan festival. Graetz in defence of the Scholiast transfers the expression ' thereon died Herod '
to the
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and they answer that in the Torah they have precedent for writing the ruler with the Divine Name. The original reading must have been 1 the ruler with the Name ', and the word t33 led the compilers and others into an error, whereby they considered it equivalent to a writ of divorce, containing the formula ?{OB*1 i"IB>1D DID (see Tosaphot, ibid.), and therefore they thought the reading in the Mishnah Yadaim IV, 8 must be n^D Dy ?U>lDi"l. But here DJ connotes any and every kind of document.
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corresponding gloss for the second of Shebat 270 which is also designated in the Megillah 3D DV without other qualification, and he substitutes in our passage the gloss 1 thereon died (Alexander) Jannai the king
' which is found in the present scholia for the 2nd of Shebat.
This substitution is not of much avail, for the 2nd of Shebat is fully ten weeks before Passover and therefore does not harmonize with the above cited passage of Josephus.
Moreover from Antiq. XVII, 6. 4, we learn that not long before Herod's death there was an eclipse of the moon,271 and we know that in 4B.C.E.
the moon's eclipse was on March 12-13.272
In that year Passover fell on April nth.273 This proves conclusively that Herod died in the end of Adar and not on the 7th of Kislev, or on the 2nd of Shebat.274
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270
Graetz, I.e., p. 571.
271 See Josephus, Ant. XVII, 6. 4.
272 Ginzel, Specieller Kanon der Sonnen- und Mondfinstemisse, Berlin,
1899, PP- *95-6.
273
Ginzel, ibid. See also Schiirer, Geschichte, I, p. 416.
274 Fixing the date of Herod's death is not only important in itself, but has additional interest for those who believe in the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth, whom Matt. (2. 1) states to have been born in Herod's rei«n.
As we have said, Herod died a short time after the eclipse of the moon witnessed in Jerusalem I2-I3th March, 750 a. u. c. (4 b. c. e.) according to these scholars ; consequently Jesus must have been born before Nisan 750 a. u. c, 4 b c. e. The common chronology reckoned from his birth is at least four years behind.
Some scholars perceive a difficulty arising from another statement of Josephus, Ant. XVII, 8. 1, Bell. Iud. I, 33. 8, that Herod ruled thirtyfour years de facto after his capture of Jerusalem ; but from 37 b. c. to 4 b. c.
would make only thirty-three years. Schiirer expresses the opinion that Josephus habitually adds one year, and that he deduces from Josephus's statement that the interval between Pompey*s capture of Jerusalem and by Herod was twenty-seven years, whereas it was only twenty-six years (from 63 B.C. e. to 37 B. c. E.).
But I have shown that Josephus counted not mathematical years, but chronological years—i. e. he counted fractions of a year a; a whole. Thus the number of the years of Herod's reign will
be thirty-four years—he having become king shortly after the capture of
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