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     There are seven proofs that the calendar of the scripture starts the year with the new moon nearest to the spring equinox.
     1. The majority of Jewish tradition supports this method.
     2. Yeshua was born in 3 b.c.e. on the feast of Trumpets, when the moon was under the constellation of virgo and the sun was in virgo, which agrees only with the new moon before the equinox.
     3. Nebudcadnezzar conquered Jerusalem in his 7th year according to the Babylonians, but in his 8th year according to the Yehudim, which can only be explained if the Hebrews used the new moon before the equinox.
     4. Josephus "Nisan" was equated with the Greek month equivalent to the Babylonian Adar, and not the Babylonian Nisanu, which always came after the equinox.
     5. The accession of Hezekiah in the 3rd year of Hoshea can only be explained by an ambiguous new moon between the two kingdoms in the 7th month, and this moon is only available by starting Aviv [Nisan] before the equinox.
     6. There is no reason to suppose that the modern Rabbinic Calendar is in error on the relationship between the first month and the equinox.
     7. It is the only method that works with Daniel's Prophecy.

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