ABSTRACT
The published Qumran texts that make explicit reference to the 364-day solar year and those that, by presupposing or pointing to it, occupied an important place in the history of scholarship on the Qumran calendars, have now been examined. In the section following our attention turns to those texts that are calendrical in nature in the sense that they are based on, and deal with, the sequence of days, weeks, and months, whether for a year or a longer cycle. These texts, which have become fully accessible only in the 1990s, offer a more comprehensive and detailed insight into the calendrical situation at Qumran and allow us to see it in a broader, clearer perspective. However much clearer that perspective may be, it should be remembered that every one of the calendars has survived in only a very fragmentary form-a fact that makes conclusions tentative or even speculative.
