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Answer: There is no "prophetic year" of 360 days alluded
to anywhere in the Bible. It is a nineteenth century
Christian invention developed through imaginative use
of the Genesis flood narrative.
Some post-biblical sectarian literature and the apocryphal
books of Jubilees and Enoch advocate a calendar consisting
of 364 days, divided into twelve months of thirty days
each. At the end of each three-month cycle a thirty-first
day was added to the month. But, this is still not a
360-day "prophetic year."
Obviously, the calendar used in the Daniel 9 countdown
has nothing to do with the nineteenth century development
of a spurious 360-day "prophetic year." |