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- The Jubilee was declared after this set of 49 years. It began on Tishri 10 (the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur) and ran to the next Day of Atonement.
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The Talmud (Arakhin 12b) accounts for 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and 7 years taken to conquer the land of Canaan and 7 years to divide the land among the tribes, putting the first Jubilee cycle precisely 54 years after the exodus (i.e. in 1258 BC), and saying that the people of Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered ...
- Sabbatical Years
- The Jubilee Year
- Influence of The Greeks
- The Late Second Temple
- Chronology of Jubilees
- Locating The Jubilee Year
- Conclusions
In the late Second-Temple Era, the custom of letting the land rest in each 7th year was an important tenet of Jewish law. Flavius Josephus, a priest-historian who lived in the first century CE, described the Jewish custom of observing the Sabbatical law in some detail. The writings of the rabbis and certain ancient contracts also make it clear that...
Some ancient sources tend to indicate that the late Second-Temple practice of observing 7th years sprang from an earlier practice of celebrating a 50-year cycle. It seems that after 7 sets of Sabbatical years had been celebrated, each 50th year (called the jubilee) was also celebrated. The more primal practice of celebrating 7 sets of 7 years and a...
The prospect that a 50th year was more anciently observed raises the question as to why/when a jubilee year was no longer celebrated under the late Second Temple. The point in time when a jubilee year was last observed appears to have been sometime within a rather lengthy period when the Greeks and then the Romans were in control of Judea (as is fu...
The chronology of Sabbatical years under the late Second Temple can rather satisfactorily be determined--as follows: From the cited late Second-Temple sources, the chronology of the once observed cycle of 7 years is rather easy to reconstruct. It is clear that a continuous run of 7-year cycles was counted between about 135 BCE and 139 CE. This peri...
The chronology of jubilee years is a bit more difficult to determine. This is because a jubilee year was not routinely celebrated in the late Second-Temple Era (as cited). As is shown in the prior section, it was surely at a time earlier than the late Second Temple when a jubilee year was last celebrated. It here seems of some considerable signific...
The Israelite celebration of a year-of-liberty (a 50th year) can only implicitly be determined from the historical record (as is further shown below). To begin a sketch of just when early Israel might have once celebrated a 50th year (or a jubilee year), the biblical book of Ezekiel can be recited. The author of the book of Ezekiel seems to indicat...
The following (implicit and explicit) instances of 7th years in the once observed jubilee cycle can be identified and dated from various of the ancient sources: 1. 701 BCE (Sennacherib's attack) 2. 587 BCE (1st Temple sacked) 3. 536 BCE (Cyrus' proclaimation) 4. 457 BCE (Ezra's ministry) 5. 443 BCE (Ezra's ministry) 6. 436 BCE (Ezra's ministry) 7. ...
Jubilee Years Since Jesus' Birth. Below is a list of Jubilees from Jesus' time to the present. Please note that each of these are also considered the first year in the count of the next seven-year Sabbatical cycle (Appointed Times of Jesus the Messiah, chapter 2, page 32).
- The Jubilee Occurred Once in 50 Years. The Yovel (Jubilee) year took place every 50 years. The Sabbatical year (Shemittah) occurred every seven years, and at the end of seven cycles of seven (49) the nation would celebrate the Yovel.1.
- Jubilee Is Not Currently Observed. For the Yovel to be commemorated, the entire Jewish nation needs to be living on their land. Hence, ever since the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of Menashe were exiled—18 years before the other northern tribes were exiled—the Jubilee was cancelled.
- No Agricultural Work Allowed. Just like in the Sabbatical year, in the Jubilee year the earth had to remain fallow, and the farmers dedicated this year to prayer and learning.
- The Release of Slaves. In biblical times, when slavery was still practiced, the Jubilee year was the non-negotiable year of freedom. Regardless of whether the slaves had completed their minimum six-year term or had chosen to remain longer than six years, they were all released once Yovel arrived.
According to Talmudic calculations the entrance of the Israelites into Palestine occurred in the year of Creation 2489, and 850 years, or seventeen jubilees, passed between that date and the destruction of the First Temple. The first cycle commenced after the conquest of the land and its distribution among the tribes, which, occupied fourteen ...
There are few records of how - if at all - Henry III, Edward III and James VI and I celebrated their 50-year milestones. The first British monarch to mark 50 years on the throne in a significant way was George III, followed by Queen Victoria.
Early Christian writers also acknowledged that the Jubilee cycle was 50 years, not 49 years. Hippolytus expressed this clearly in his commentary on the Psalms. Let us inquire, further, why there are one hundred and fifty psalms.
