Abib (ear month)
Abib (also Aviv), the "ear month" is according to the Pentateuch the sixth month of the old Canaanite calendar. It corresponds to Nisan , the first month according to the “religious” calendar. It always lasts 30 days. According to the Gregorian calendar , Abib begins in mid-March, when the first harvest is brought in and the first spring new moon is witnessed.
In the Old Testament , the term "Abib" in Exodus 34, 18 is decisive as the month of the exodus from Egypt and thus the beginning of a new era:
“You are to keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. In the month of Abib, at the appointed time, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I have commanded you. Because in the month of Abib you left Egypt. "
On the 10th of Abib the lambs are brought for Passover , on the 14th, i.e. on the full moon , they are slaughtered. The Abib always includes the Passover or Passover festival and thus the Christian Easter . In the post-exilic literature (cf. Neh 2.1 EU ) the month is called Nisan by its Hebrew name .
literature
- Art. Abib , in: Herbert Haag (Hrsg.), Bibellexikon, Leipzig 1969, p. 36.
- Lucie Renner: Calendar, III. Jewish calendar . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 1144 .