Living the lunar calendar
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Ben-Dov, Jonathan.
Horowitz, Wayne, 1957- Steele, John M. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford , Oakville, CT :
Oxbow Books,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Forward / Amanda Weiss
- Introduction / Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele
- Sunday in Mesopotamia / Wayne Horowitz
- Middle Assyrian lunar calendar and chronology / Yigal Bloch
- Beyond the moon : Minoan calendar-symbolism in the blue bird fresco / Sabine Beckman
- Early Greek lunisolar cycles : the Pythian and olympic games / Robert Hannah
- What to do on the thirtieth? : a neo-Platonic interpretation of Hesiod's works and days, 765-8 / Patrizia Marzillo
- Why Greek lunar months began a day later than Egyptian lunar months, both before first visibility of the new crescent / Leo Depuydt
- Lunar calendars at Qumran : a comparative and ideological study / Jonathan Ben-Dov
- Tame and wild time in the Qumran and Rabbinic calendar / Ron H. Feldman
- The Rabbinic new moon procedure : context and significance / Sacha Stern
- From observation to calculation : the development of the Rabbinic lunar calendar / Lawrence H. Schiffman.
