Released From the Support Team Study Vault! In this episode of Reaping the Benefits of the Medieval Aviv Calendar: Part 2, Nehemia speaks with a scholar at University College London about how Karaites implemented the Aviv calendar in the tenth and eleventh centuries, how their medieval Aviv controversies mirror those still raging today, and how they managed to maintain community cohesion despite profound difference of calendar observance.
In this Support Team Study, Calculating Passover in the Middle Ages, Nehemia speaks with a scholar at University College London about how Karaite Jews implemented the biblical calendar in exile, how they determined the beginning of the year when faced with bedouin bandits, and the vagaries of the vernal equinox. As a bonus they discussed when Karaites stopped observing the Aviv biblical calendar and the significance of Yom Kippur in 1844.
This week's episode of Hebrew Voices, Proclaiming a Leap Year of Faith, was recorded live on the Aviv Search in 2016. We take you to the very place of the proclamation in the barley fields of Israel. Walk with us through the process as we uncover God's appointed times according to the calendar hard-wired into Creation!
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