Calendar and community : a history of the Jewish calendar, 2nd century BCE--tenth century CE / Sacha Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Sacha.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish calendar--History.

Jewish calendar.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 306 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This volume traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the 10th century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of literary, documentary, and epigraphic sources, this is the first comprehensive book to have been written on this subject. Stern shows that the Jewish calendar evolved during this period from considerable diversity (a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity. This consolidation of the calendar is one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the early medieval world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-302) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0198270348

OCLC:

47036221