What were some problems that the early Christians faced in dealing with the Hebrew year?
The computation of time among the Jews was base primarily upon the lunar month. The year consisted normally of twelve such months, alternately of 29 and 30 days each; such a year, however, contains only 354 days, which by no means agrees with the number of days in the mean solar year. Moreover, the exact length of the mean lunar month is not exactly 29 1/2 days as the above arrangement would suggest. To compensate for the irregularity two corrections were introduced. First, a day was added to one month, or subtracted from another month. In order to keep the months in agreement with the moon, eight years out of every nineteen, an extra month seems to have been introduced when necessary. On the 14th day of the month of Nisan, (Leviticus 23:5, 10) the firstfruits of grain in the ear had to be brought to the priests and the Passover lamb sacrificed. This made it necessary to delay the Passover until the corn was in ear and the lambs were ready. It was the difficulty created by such a syste
