Calendrical variations in Second Temple Judaism : new perspectives on the "Date of the Last Supper" debate / by Stephane Saulnier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saulnier, Stéphane.

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 159.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 159

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Fasts and feasts.

Jewish calendar.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Lord's Supper.

Jaubert, Annie. Date of the Last Supper.

Jaubert, Annie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Starting from the seminal work of the French scholar Annie Jaubert on the date of the Last Supper, the present work revisits known - and identifies new - calendrical issues in the literature of Second Temple Judaism. The research supports the conclusion that all known calendrical traditions functioned on the tenet that orthopraxis in ancient Judaism meant close interconnection between cultic and agricultural cycles. From this perspective the book removes the calendrical objection leveled at the Jaubertian theory. Further, the research brings new light on current debates about Qumran calendrical documents and proposes the identification of a previously unknown calendrical polemic in the Astronomical Book of Enoch concerning the synchronization of the 364DY tradition with the lunar cycle.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

I. The Date of the Last Supper: Annie Jaubert’s Theory Revisited

II. The Cycle of Festivals and the Seasons in the Hebrew Bible

III. The Cycle of Festivals and the Seasons in the Book of Jubilees

IV. The Cycle of Festivals in the Dead Sea Scrolls

V. The Cycle of Festivals in Other Relevant Jewish Sources

VI. Calendrical Issues in the Book of Luminaries (1 Enoch 72–82)

VII. The Calendrical Documents from Qumran

VIII. Conclusions

Appendix: The 364-Day Year, the Lunar Cycle, and the Triennial Cycle

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Scriptures and Other Ancient Writings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-268) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-49595-2

9786613591180

90-04-22632-X

OCLC:

794328551

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004226326 DOI