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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Sacha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish calendar--History.

Jews--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject. It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Solar and lunar calendars; 1.1 From biblical origins to the end of the Roman period: the rise of the lunar calendar; 1.1.1 Biblical sources; 1.1.2 The Hellenistic and Hasmonaean periods; 1.1.3 Ethiopic Enoch; 1.1.4 Slavonic Enoch; 1.1.5 Jubilees; 1.1.6 Qumran sources: the calendars; 1.1.7 Qumran sources and calendrical practice; 1.1.8 Qumran calendars and sectarianism; 1.1.9 The first century CE and beyond: the end of the solar calendar; 1.1.10 Philo of Alexandria; 1.1.11 Josephus; 1.1.12 Second to sixth centuries CE: literary sources

1.1.13 First to sixth centuries CE: inscriptions and documents1.2 Jewish and non-Jewish calendars; 1.2.1 The 'Jewish' calendar; 1.2.2 Persian, Seleucid and Hasmonaean periods; 1.2.3 Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt; 1.2.4 Josephus: calendars in early Roman Judaea; 1.2.5 Babatha's archive: the spread of the solar calendar; 1.2.6 The Jewish calendar in the Roman Empire; 2 The intercalation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 The procedure of intercalation; 2.1.2 The 'limits' of lunisolar synchronization; 2.1.3 The evidence; 2.2 The early period: Enoch, Qumran, and other sources; 2.2.1 Lunisolar Cycles

2.2.2 The rule of the equinox2.3 The first century: Philo, Josephus, and epigraphic sources; 2.3.1 Philo of Alexandria; 2.3.2 Josephus; 2.3.3 Passover in Jerusalem, 37 CE; 2.3.4 The Berenike inscription; 2.3.5 Conclusion; 2.4 The second and third centuries; 2.5 The fourth century: Passover and the Christian Easter; 2.5.1 The rule of the equinox in the fourth century; 2.5.2 From the first century to the fourth: a radical change; 2.5.3 The 'limits' of Passover: Peter of Alexandria and the Sardica document; 2.5.4 Calendrical diversity: evidence from the Council of Nicaea

2.6 The fourth to sixth centuries: the persistence of diversity2.6.1 Justinian's decree; 2.6.2 The ketubah of Antinoopolis; 2.6.3 The Zoar inscriptions; 2.6.4 Conclusion; 3 The new moon; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 The 'New moon': some definitions; 3.1.2 Calculation and observation; 3.1.3 The Jewish lunar calendar; 3.1.4 The Magharians; 3.1.5 The evidence of Jewish dates; 3.1.6 Astronomical data; 3.1.7 Visibility and sighting of the new moon; 3.1.8 The conjunction; 3.1.9 Non-lunar factors; 3.2 The early period: the sighting of the new moon; 3.2.1 John Hyrcanus and Josephus

3.2.2 Philo of Alexandria3.2.3 The Berenike inscriptions; 3.2.4 Cestius' assault on Jerusalem, 66 CE; 3.2.5 Second-century sources; 3.3 The later period: the day of the conjunction; 3.3.1 The Sardica document; 3.3.2 The Catania inscription; 3.3.3 The ketubah of Antinoopolis; 3.3.4 Conclusion: the shift to the conjunction; 3.4 The later period: the persistence of diversity; 3.4.1 The letter of Ambrose; 3.4.2 The Zoar inscriptions; 3.4.3 Conclusion; 4 The rabbinic calendar: development and history; 4.1 The Mishnaic calendar; 4.1.1 The new month; 4.1.2 The intercalation; 4.1.3 Theory and reality

4.2 The Talmudic period

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

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ISBN:

9786611943752

0-19-152078-0

1-281-94375-4

OCLC:

302357383