The Gezer Almanac.<br />Language: Hebrew.<br />Medium: limestone.<br />Size: 11.1 centimeters long.<br />7.2 centimeters wide.<br />Length: 7 lines of writing.<br />plus margin signature.<br />Genre: agricultura.<br />Approximate Date: 925 BCE.<br />Place of Discovery: Tell el-Jazari.<br />ancient Gezer 30km Northwest of Jerusalem.<br />Excavation Director: R. A. S. Macalister.<br />Date of Discovery: 1908.<br />Current Location: Syria and Palestine Collection.<br /><br />Gezer's calendar is the earliest writing that can be considered Hebrew. Some define it as pre-Hebrew, or Hebrew Paleolithic. In my view this would be the Hebrew script, not the current one which is a Persian writing system.<br />We will study line by line of this calendar, to be able to understand as the people of that time thought.<br />ירחו אסף ירחו ז <br />1<br />two months of harvest, two months of planting.<br />Here we have the term two months, which is a dualistic form, refers to two periods. What would define two lunar periods, and thus two months.<br />We will see that these months are respectively From August to September and October to November.
