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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sacha Stern |
| ISBN: | 0198270348 9780198270348 |
| OCLC Number: | 47036221 |
| Description: | xvi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1 Solar and lunar calendars -- 1.1 From biblical origins to the end of the Roman period : the rise of the lunar calendar -- 1.1.1 Biblical sources -- 1.1.2 The Hellenistic and Hasmonaean periods -- 1.1.3 Ethiopic Enoch -- 1.1.4 Slavonic Enoch -- 1.1.5 Jubilees -- 1.1.6 Qumran sources: the calendars -- 1.1.7 Qumran sources and calendrical practice -- 1.1.8 Qumran calendars and sectarianism -- 1.1.9 The first century CE and beyond : the end of the solar calendar -- 1.1.10 Philo of Alexandria -- 1.1.11 Josephus -- 1.1.12 Second to sixth centuries CE : literary sources. -- 1.1.13 First to sixth centuries CE : inscriptions and documents -- 1.2 Jewish and non-Jewish calendars -- 1.2.1 The 'Jewish' calendar -- 1.2.2 Persian, Seleucid and Hasmonaean periods -- 1.2.3 Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt -- 1.2.4 Josephus : calendars in early Roman Judaea -- 1.2.5 Babatha's archive : the spread of the solar calendar -- 1.2.6 The Jewish calendar in the Roman Empire -- 5 The intercalation -- 12. Introduction -- 2.1.1 The procedure of intercalation -- 2.1.2 The 'limits' of lunisolar synchronization -- 2.1.3 The evidence -- F,2 The early period: Enoch, Qumran, and other sources -- 2.2.1 Lunisolar cycles -- 2.2.2 The rule of the equinox -- 2.3 The first century : Philo, Josephus, and epigraphic sources -- 2.3.1 Philo of Alexandria -- 2.3.2 Josephus -- 2.3.3 Passover in Jerusalem, 37 CE -- 2.3.4 The Berenike inscription -- 2.3.5 Conclusion -- 2.4 The second and third centuries -- 2.5 The fourth century : Passover and the Christian Easter -- 2.5.1 The rule of the equinox in the fourth century -- 2.5.2 From the first century to the fourth : a radical change -- 2.5.3 The 'limits' of Passover : Peter of Alexandria and the Sardica document -- 2.5.4 Calendrical diversity : evidence from the Council of Nicaea -- 2.6 The fourth to sixth centuries : the persistence of diversity -- 2.6.1 Justinian's decree, I -- 2.6.2 The ketubah of Antinoopolis -- 2.6.3 The Zoar inscriptions -- 2.6.4 Conclusion -- 3 The new moon -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 The 'new moon' : some definitions. -- 31.2 Calculation and observaiion -- 3.1.3 The Jewish lunar calenda r-- 3.1.4 The Magharians -- 3.1.5 The evidence of Jewish dates -- 3.1.6 Astronomical data -- 3.1.7 Visibility and sight in of the new moon -- 3.1.8 The conjunction. -- 3.1.9 Non-lunar factors. -- 3.2 The early period the sighting of the new moon -- 3.2.1 John Ilyrcanus and Josephus -- 3.2.2 Philo of Alexandria -- 3.2.3 The Berenike inscriptions -- 3.2.4 Cestius' assault on Jerusalem, 66 CE. -- 3.2.5 Second-century sources -- 3.3 The later period : the day of the conjunction -- 3.3.1 The Sardica document -- 3.3.2 The Catania inscription -- 3.3.3 The ketubah of Antinoopolis -- 33.34 Conclusion : the shift to the conjunction -- 3.4 The later period : the persistence of diversity -- 3.4.1 The letter of Ambrose -- 3.4.2 The Zoar inscriptions -- 3.4.3 Conclusion -- The rabbinic calendar : development and history -- 4.1 The Mishnaic calendar -- 4.1.1 The new month -- 4.1.2 The intercalation -- 4.1.3 Theory and reality -- 4.2 The Talmudic period -- 4.2.1 The empirical calendar -- 4.2.2 Calendrical rules -- 4.2.3 The fixed calendar -- 4.2.4 The Hillel tradition -- 4.2.5 The 'institution' of the fixed calendar -- 4.3 The Geonic period -- 4.3.1 Evidence of divergences from the present-day rabbinic calendar -- 4.3.2 The Geonic calendar(s) -- 4.3.3 The calendrical court -- 4.4 The emergence of the present-day rabbinic calendar -- 4.4.1 The present-day rabbinic calendar : an outline -- 4.4.2 The sequence of months -- 4.4.3 The rule of lo ADU -- 4.4.4 The rule of molad zaqen -- 4.4.5 The 19-year cycle -- 4.4.6 The calculation of the molad : the evidence -- 4.4,7 The origins of the present-day rabbinic molad -- Calendar and community : the emergence of the normative Jewish calendar -- 5.1 Why the rabbinic calendar changed : some theories -- 5.11 The persecution theory -- 5.1.2 The Christian influence theory -- 5.1.3 The scientific progress theory -- i,2 The 'one calendar' theory -- 5.2.1 'The theory in Geonic and later medieval sources -- 5.2.2 'One calendar' : the Christian parallel-- 5.2.3 Unification as a rabbinic policy -- 5.3 Palestine and Babylonia : the single rabbinic community -- 5.3.1 The ideal of calendrical unanimity -- 5.3.2 Calendrical unanimity and the Babylonian community-- 5.3.3 Calendrical dissidence in Babylonia -- 5.3.4 Calendar prediction in Babylonia -- 5.3.5 From calendrical rules to the fixed calendar. -- 5.4 The Babylonian origins of the normative Jewish calendar -- 5.4.1 Calendrical rules in Babylonia -- 5.4.2 Calendar calculation in Babylonia -- 5.4.3 The erosion of Palestinian authority -- 5.4.4 The R. Saadya-Ben Meir controversy -- 5.4.5 The 'four parts table' -- 5.4.6 The calculation of the molad -- Appendix: The Exilarch's Letter of 835/6 CE. |
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