Dating the Passion : the life of Jesus and the emergence of scientific chronology (200-1600) / C. Philipp E. Nothaft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nothaft, C. Philipp E.

Series:

Time, astronomy, and calendars ; 1.

Time, astronomy, and calendars, 2211-632X ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chronology, Historical.

History--Methodology.

History.

Chronology--Historiography.

Chronology.

Calendar--History.

Calendar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The beginnings of scientific chronology are usually associated with the work of the great Renaissance philologist Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609), but this perspective is challenged by the existence of a vivid pre-modern computistical tradition, in which technical chronological questions, especially regarding the life of Jesus, played an essential role. Christian scholars such as Roger Bacon made innovative breakthroughs in the field of historical dating by applying astronomical calculations, critical exegesis, and the study of the Jewish calendar to chronological problems. Drawing on a wide selection of sources that range from late antiquity to 1600, this book uses the history of the date of Christ’s Passion to shed new light on the medieval contribution to science and scholarship.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

Introduction / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

From Astronomy to the Crucifixion and Back / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

The Origins of Computistical Chronography / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

The Crisis of Computistical Chronography in the Early Middle Ages / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

All Coherence Restored? The Age of the Critical Computists / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

New Foundations: / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

A Science of Time: / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

Time for Controversy: / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

Prominent Attempts to Date Christ’s Birth and Death (200–1600) / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

Bibliography / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

Index of Biblical References / Nothaft C. Philipp E.

Index of Names / Nothaft C. Philipp E..

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 indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-29241-6

9786613292414

90-04-21707-X

OCLC:

756484387

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004217072 DOI