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Dating the Passion : the life of Jesus and the emergence of scientific chronology (200-1600) / by C. Philipp E. Nothaft.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nothaft, C. Philipp E.
- Series:
- Time, astronomy, and calendars ; v. 1.
- Time, astronomy, and calendars, 2211-632X ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronology--History.
- Chronology.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Chronology--Historiography.
- Calendar--History.
- Calendar.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 319 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Summary:
- Nothaft (Hebrew and Jewish studies, U. College, London) believes that the remarkable continuity between late antique and modern scholarship regarding the life of Jesus can be fruitfully exploited to shed new light on the history of chronology as a scientific discipline. He examines the different attempts to find the precise date of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, as they were produced in Christian scholarship up to the end of the 16th century, when the work of a number of scholars--the most celebrated being Joseph Justus Scaliger--transformed historical chronology into a fully fledged discipline. His topics include the origins of computistical chronography and its crisis in the early Middle Ages, chronology and the 12th-century Renaissance, a science of time with Roger Bacon and his successors, biblical chronology and Ptolemy's eclipses, and the life of Jesus and the emergence of scientific chronology. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Substantially the revised English version of the author's German dissertation, entitled Das Leben Jesu und die Entstehung der wissenschaftlichen Chronologie: Eine problemgeschichtliche Studie (200- 1600), which was submitted to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in October 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004212191
- 9789004212190
- OCLC:
- 743755844
- Publisher Number:
- 99946307942
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