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Calendars and Divination
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BrontologionA Qumran Aramaic thunder oracle predicting the fate of nations based on which zodiacal sign the moon occupies when thunder sounds, organized by month.Mishmarot A — Calendar of Priestly CoursesA Good Works Translation of 4Q320 from Hebrew — the premier Dead Sea Scrolls calendrical text, synchronizing the 24 priestly courses with the 364-day solar year and the cycle of pilgrimage festivals across six years.Mishmarot B — Lunar Conjunction CalendarA Good Works Translation of 4Q321 from Hebrew — the Dead Sea Scrolls companion to Mishmarot A, mapping the lunar conjunction (dukah) and the subsequent Sabbath to the 24 priestly courses across the six-year calendar cycle.Phases of the MoonA Good Works Translation of 4Q317 from Hebrew — a Qumran text written in the Cryptic A cipher alphabet, tracking the daily phases of the moon through a 30-day cycle with recurring liturgical formulas for each day's light and darkness.Physiognomic HoroscopeA Qumran cipher-script text — written in a reversed mixed-script code — assigning each human type a ratio of light-parts to dark-parts based on physical characteristics and birth-sign.