Format:
VIII, 387 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781842174814
Content:
Forward / Amanda Weiss -- Introduction / Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele -- Sunday in Mesopotamia / Wayne Horowitz -- Middle Assyrian lunar calendar and chronology / Yigal Bloch -- Beyond the moon : Minoan calendar-symbolism in the blue bird fresco / Sabine Beckman -- Early Greek lunisolar cycles : the Pythian and olympic games / Robert Hannah -- What to do on the thirtieth? : a neo-Platonic interpretation of Hesiod's works and days, 765-8 / Patrizia Marzillo -- Why Greek lunar months began a day later than Egyptian lunar months, both before first visibility of the new crescent / Leo Depuydt -- Lunar calendars at Qumran : a comparative and ideological study / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- Tame and wild time in the Qumran and Rabbinic calendar / Ron H. Feldman -- The Rabbinic new moon procedure : context and significance / Sacha Stern -- From observation to calculation : the development of the Rabbinic lunar calendar / Lawrence H. Schiffman
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c2012
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Forward
,
Introduction
,
Sunday in Mesopotamia
,
Middle Assyrian lunar calendar and chronology
,
Beyond the moon : Minoan calendar-symbolism in the blue bird fresco
,
Early Greek lunisolar cycles : the Pythian and olympic games
,
What to do on the thirtieth? : a neo-Platonic interpretation of Hesiod's works and days, 765-8
,
Why Greek lunar months began a day later than Egyptian lunar months, both before first visibility of the new crescent
,
Lunar calendars at Qumran : a comparative and ideological study
,
Tame and wild time in the Qumran and Rabbinic calendar
,
The Rabbinic new moon procedure : context and significance
,
From observation to calculation : the development of the Rabbinic lunar calendar
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Mondkalender
;
Altertum
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Horowitz, Wayne 1957-
Author information:
Ben-Dov, Yonatan 1971-
Author information:
Steele, John M.