Calendar and Community
A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CE
This book traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origin until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. It draws on a wide range of sources - literary, documentary and epigraphic; Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian. The unification of the calendar is seen as an element in the unification of Jewish identity.
This volume traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the 10th century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of literary, documentary, and epigraphic sources, this is the first comprehensive book to have been written on this subject. Stern shows that the Jewish calendar evolved during this period from considerable diversity (a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity. This consolidation of the calendar is one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the early medieval world.
| Autor: | Stern Sacha |
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| ISBN: | 9780198270348 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 04.10.2001 |
| Untertitel: | A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CE |
| Schlagworte: | Jewish Studies Relating to Jewish people and groups SCIENCE / Time SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies Social groups: religious groups and communities Time (chronology), time systems & standards Time (chronology), time systems and standards |
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