The Scriptural Calendar: Reconstructing The 364-Day Calendar and The Intercalation Method

by Christopher Collins

Man became scientific because they expected law in nature, and they expected law in nature because they believed in the Law Giver. God is not the same kind of explanation as a scientific explanation. God does not compete. Agency does not compete with mechanism and law. Ultimate reality is personable and intelligent, and the reason science works is that the creation that exist and the human mind that does the science are ultimately the product of the same intelligent, divine mind. Human beings are made in the image of God, and that means science can be done.

The topic and study of the 364-Day calendar is an intensely debated topic within the communities that adhere to it. However, the discussions devolve into arguments of theology and philosophy, where the methods of interpreting scripture become the focal point, rather than the calculations that are foundational for a method promoted by those who claim to have figured out the calendar. In this work, we take a look at the math, with units of measurement defined in every equation, that proves how the 364-day calendar functions, and some of the numerous implications as a result of understanding how the calendar functions. The impact that understanding the proper core functions surrounding the 364-day calendar and its intercalation method can have on someone who is looking to deepen their relationship with God is one of great significance.

98 pages, Hardcover

Published August 31, 2023

About the author

Born during the Great Depression, I grew up in a poor family in rural New Jersey. But, through a series of happy accidents, I did get a good education: BA from St. Anselm's, MA from the University of California at Berkeley, and finally, in 1964, a PhD from Columbia. I subsequently spent forty-five years teaching literature, mainly poetry, to college students. The last forty of those years I worked at New York University, where I taught a very wide range of courses from Shakespeare and Milton to Blake, Whitman, and Plath and designed my own seminars in what has become for me a special focus, the interaction of brain and language in the reading experience.

Since ‘90s I've written several books on this topic, including Reading the Written Image, The Poetics of The Mind’s Eye, and Authority Figures. This year (2013) Columbia University Press published Paleopoetics, a book in which I project the functions of imagination and language onto some 2.5 million years of human evolutionary time.

My wife and I have two children, two grandchildren, and two cats.