Calendrical Elements in 2 Enoch

It is widely known that 2 Enoch is rich in calendrical material of both luni-solar and solar nature. The early attempts to reconstruct the corresponding calendrical elements failed due to the general unawareness of the pre-Qumran scholarship of the real variety of the Jewish calendars in the Hellenistic period. It is only in the 1990s that it became clear, due to the Dead Sea Scrolls studies, that the 364-day calendars themselves could be quite varied, and so, the question of the further specification of 2 Enoch’s luni-solar calendar comes to our attention. One of the most important dates of the narrative is the 6th day of the 3rd month, the early scholarship has suggested that this is the date of Pentecost. To obtain some criteria for choosing between different manuscript readings in the scheme of the luni-solar calendar in 16:2, this chapter analyses the important dates within the narrative.