Abstract
Daniel 7:25 blames the iniquitous king, Antiochus Epiphanes, for changing times in Temple worship. According to A. Jaubert and J. C. VanderKam, this marks the occasion on which the Hellenistic lunar calendar definitively replaced the old Zadokite solar calendar, which Jubilees and Qumran would seek in vain to restore after the Maccabean revolt. In his review of Jaubert's hypothesis, J. C. VanderKam drew attention to the fact that before the Maccabean period we do not have evidence of conflict between the solar and the lunar calendar. In the third century BCE, the Astronomical Book seems to be concerned exclusively those who fail to reckon the four intercalary days in the [solar] year, not with those who use the moon in their calendrical calculations. A reassessment of this Enochic document is necessary in order to understand the exact nature of the two conflicting solar calendars there attested. Keywords: A. Jaubert; Antiochus Epiphanes; Astronomical Book; Daniel; Hellenistic lunar calendar; J. C. VanderKam; Jubilees ; Maccabean revolt; old Zadokite solar calendar; Qumran
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