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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455902703321

Autore

VanderKam James C.

Titolo

Calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls : measuring time / / James C. VanderKam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-70960-9

1-134-70963-3

1-280-10446-5

0-203-20188-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 136 pages)

Collana

The literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls Calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls

Disciplina

296.155

Soggetti

Jewish calendar

Jewish chronology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-128) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

part PART I INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL AND POST-BIBLICAL CALENDARS -- chapter 1 THE HEBREW BIBLE -- chapter 2 SOURCES LATER THAN THE HEBREW BIBLE -- chapter 3 RABBINIC LITERATURE -- part PART II THE CALENDARS IN THE QUMRAN TEXTS -- chapter 4 THE FIRST CALENDRICAL HINTS -- chapter 5 A HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP ON THE QUMRAN CALENDARS -- chapter 6 THE CALENDRICAL TEXTS -- chapter 7 MEASURING AND SYMBOLIZING LONGER UNITS OF TIME -- chapter 8 CONCLUSIONS.

Sommario/riassunto

1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls provides a valuable addition to the Dead Sea Scrolls Series and contributes to the elucidation of the scroll texts themselves and their relation to other Biblical texts.