Read the Moon.
Follow the year.
Find the letter.

Cycles, visibility and a year that can be counted.

These texts preserve an ancient effort to describe recurring celestial order. The selected fragments are particularly useful for studying the Moon: when it appears, when it is hidden, the fractions used to describe its cycle, its rising gate, and the day of a schematic month. They are fragments of a mathematical and literary tradition, with damaged numerals and competing reconstructions.

For a contemporary sky calculation, record a timestamp, location, time standard, ephemeris and coordinate system. A symbolic interpretation of a phase belongs beside that calculation with its own label.

Two witnesses. One comparison to keep open.

Textual parallel is not a physical join. The selected comparison does not prove the two fragments touch. IAA mounting-plate numbers and editorial fragment numbers still need an explicit concordance.

Name the thing before connecting it.

The names, with their places in the story.

This register follows the English edition of the fuller Ethiopic tradition, chapters 72–82. It is not an attestation list for the surviving 4Q208 and 4Q209 pieces. Spellings vary by language and edition; no unsupported etymology, star identification or letter assignment is supplied.

Chapter 82 describes twelve monthly leaders, but this selected account does not give us a complete, secure twelve-name zodiac correspondence table. We keep that gap visible.

All twenty-two letters.
One clearly labelled bridge.

Start with Kaf / Sun and Tav / Moon. Then explore the twelve Simple letters as Babylon’s zodiac and heart-chamber map. The three Mothers offer elemental teaching language; the remaining five Doubles complete Babylon’s broader planetary map. These are Babylon’s adopted correspondences, already taught in this library. The selected Enoch fragments do not themselves state this 22-letter table.

Keep the addresses distinct: the Sun correspondence is Kaf; the Sun tarot card is Resh / Path 30. The Moon correspondence is Tav; the Moon tarot card is Kof / Path 29. A lunar phase, letter family, fixed Tree path, card image and daily reading role are separate labels.

Why the year totals matter.

Jacobus’s 2019 paper argues for a one-year arrangement relating 354 lunar days to an ideal 360-day solar scheme. It challenges Ratzon’s 2017 multi-year reconstruction; the detailed description of that three-year proposal here is read through Jacobus’s response. Ratzon’s 2017 abstract and 2019 4Q208 reconstruction abstract were consulted; the complete articles remain to obtain. The debate includes earlier proposals by Milik and Drawnel and is not exhausted by these two positions.

For 3 schematic years: 354 × 3 = 1,062; 360 × 3 = 1,080; 364 × 3 = 1,092. Differences from the lunar total: 18 and 30 days.

The calculator compares arithmetic only. It does not choose a reconstruction, insert an ancient leap month, model real lunations or validate an absolute epoch. 360 schematic days and 360 degrees are different units; their equal number does not make one a conversion rule.

The next evidence to pursue.

1. Map each selected edition fragment to the exact IAA photograph, retaining both numbering systems.
2. Obtain Drawnel’s relevant pages and the complete Ratzon articles; mark surviving, supplied and disputed numerals separately.
3. Trace the 1995 4Q208 sample photograph and any published recalibration; locate a separate dating assessment for 4Q209.
4. Read Tigchelaar’s 2022 proposed 4Q209 join and establish whether later editions accept it.
5. For every proposed name-to-letter link, cite Babylon’s teaching and separately record whether any ancient witness actually states the correspondence.

No new institutional email for these two witnesses has been sent in this review. The existing IAA correspondence remains visible; these are defined follow-up tasks.

Sources and review boundaries.

Selected passages reviewed 9 November 2026. Modern translations and institution images are linked at their sources. The name register is an orientation to the fuller text, not a newly reconstructed Aramaic edition.

1. IAA · 4Q208, plate 814

   November 2013; plate 814 · Identification and mounting-plate fragments. Plate fragment numbers are not automatically edition numbers.

2. IAA · 4Q209, plate 847

   November 2013; plate 847 · Identification and plate image. No material age is derived from the photograph.

3. Jull, Donahue, Broshi and Tov · radiocarbon report (1995)

   Printed pp. 11–14 and 19; Table 2 p. 14 · 4Q208 = DSS-13 / AA-13245, 2095 ± 20 BP, nine determinations; historical calibration 1σ 166–102 BCE, 2σ 186–92 BCE. These results concern material, not the ink or narrated epoch.

4. Jacobus · Reconstructing the Calendar of 4Q208–4Q209 (2019)

   Selected PDF pp. 4–8, 10–12 and 22 · English excerpts adapt Drawnel 2011. Proposed one-year reconstruction is an argument, not consensus; selected passage readings remain partly restored.

5. Ratzon · The First Jewish Astronomers (2017)

   Science in Context 30(2), 113–139 · Abstract consulted; full paper not obtained. Detailed three-year proposal is discussed through Jacobus’s response, with that dependency identified.

6. Ratzon · 4Q208: A new reconstruction (2019)

   Revue de Qumran 31(1), 51–110 · Abstract describes a new reconstruction, textual plurality and changing models; full article not obtained in this review.

7. Tigchelaar · proposed 4Q209 fragment join (2022)

   5 April 2022, version 1, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6413973 · Proposes 4Q209 frg. 4 + PAM 43.666 frg. 41 (IAA plate 88, frg. 35). Metadata consulted; full PDF and physical join not independently reviewed.

8. 1 Enoch 72–82 · R. H. Charles English edition

   Chapters 72, 74–78 and 82 · Fuller Ethiopic Enoch tradition in an English edition. Names here are not thereby demonstrated on either selected Aramaic fragment.