The Liturgical Cycle in 3 Maccabees and the 2 Enoch Calendar (proofs)

The Liturgical Cycle in 3 Maccabees and the 2 Enoch Calendar, in: Marc Leroy et Martin Staszak (éds.), Perceptions du temps dans la Bible (Études bibliques. Nouvelle série, N° 77) Leuven—Paris—Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2018, 156–170.
3 Maccabees provides a hagiographical legend related to a 50-day liturgi-cal cycle. This cycle implies a modification of the already known calendar shared by 2 enoch and the Joseph and aseneth and covers the third pente-contad after the Passover within the 364-day year having its first day (1.I) falling on Sunday (not Wednesday). 3 Maccabees’s innovation consists in shifting the former new Wine pentecontad from the second to the third position while transforming the original day of the new Wine festival into a day of mourning. This kind of liturgical transformation of some feasts is not unique, however, in the Second Temple Judaism.