Why did the Hebrews not create their own calendar system instead
of copying the pagan Babylonians'? I find it interesting that
they use a pagan calendar which often honours pagan gods. Why is
this permitted? Let's take a step back: the Hebrew calendar uses
lunar months of either 29 or 30 days (for 354 days altogether).
Now the Bible says that Passover should be in the spring, and if
you keep having years of 354 days you'll keep sliding backwards
until Passover won't be in the spring anymore, so every so often
they'd add a leap month. Sure, other peoples may have had lunar
calendars too, but nothing pagan or Babylonian per se here. In
the books of Moses, the months are simply called "first month",
"second month", and so on. Passover is in the first month, Yom
Kippur in the seventh. Nothing pagan or Babylonian here yet
either. Throughout the period of the Judges and First Temple
(let's say very roughly from 3500 to 2500 years ago), we
occasionally see the Bible use Hebrew names for some of the
months (such as "