Calendars are powerful political, religious and social tools. Their symbolism incorporates spiritual, temporal, cosmological, celestial, numerical and agricultural truths, often in the guise of cultural myth. The authority ancient kings, carried througho
In this paper, I analyze the biblical sources through the lens of their later appearance in midrashic and Zoharic interpretations, emphasizing the parallels between the construction of the Tabernacle (Ex. 25–40) and the myth of Eve’s creation (Gen. 2). This intentional mixture of corpuses ...