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WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN<br />
In the fourth century, a fixed calendar <strong>was</strong> developed by Jewish<br />
scholars to compensate for the fact that there are 12.4 lunar months in a<br />
solar year. The new version, used right to modern times, standardized<br />
the calendar for the course of a 19 year cycle, so that it meshes<br />
perfectly with the seasons. To do this, certain months had a set variable<br />
number of days, and a 13th month, Adar II, <strong>was</strong> added in the 3rd, 6th,<br />
8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th years of the cycle. In leap years, Adar has<br />
30 days. In non-leap years, Adar has 29 days.<br />
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