Screen LibraryTime, astronomy, and calendars in the Jewish tradition /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Time, astronomy, and calendars : texts and studies,
volume 3 |
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| Item Description: | "The study of time, astronomy, and calendars, has been closely intertwined in the history of Western culture and, more particularly, Jewish tradition. Jewish interest in astronomy was fostered by the Jewish calendar, which was based on the courses of the sun and the moon, whist astronomy, in turn, led to a better understanding of how time should be reckoned. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish tradition, edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett, presents a wide selection of original research in this multi-disciplinary field, ranging from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages. Its vari |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004259652 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 9004259651 (hardback : alkaline paper) 9789004259669 (e-book) 900425966X (e-book) |
| Index Number: | CE35 |
| CLC: | P197.238.2 |
| Call Number: | P197.238.2/T583 |
| Contents: | A Jewish parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman Egypt / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- Observing the moon: astronomical and cosmological aspects in the rabbinic new moon procedure / Reimund Leicht -- Cosmology as science or cosmology as theology? Reflections on the astronomical chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer / Katharina Keim -- Some early Islamic and Christian sources regarding the Jewish calendar (9th-11th centuries) / François de Blois -- The Jewish calendar controversy of 921-22: reconstructing the manuscripts and their transmission history / Marina Rustow and Sacha Stern -- The Hebrew calendri |