عنوان

Living the lunar calendar /

(Number (ISBN

1842174819

(Number (ISBN

9781842174814

Number

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Title Proper

Living the lunar calendar /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oakville, CT :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxbow Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 287 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

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

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Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian

Calendar, Egyptian

Calendar, Greek

Calendars-- History-- To 1500

Jewish calendar

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ben-Dov, Jonathan

Horowitz, Wayne,1957-

Steele, John M

Date of Transaction

20120824090511.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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