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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459327703321

Autore

Hedman Matthew <1974->

Titolo

The age of everything [[electronic resource] ] : how science explores the past / / Matthew Hedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-53848-9

9786612538483

0-226-32294-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeological dating

Archaeology - Technological innovations

Radiocarbon dating

Science - History

Geochronometry

Electronic books.

Earth Age

Solar system Age

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The calendars of the classic Maya -- Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids -- The physics of carbon-14 -- Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air -- Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world -- Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright -- Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals -- Meteorites and the age of the solar system -- Colors, brightness, and the age of stars -- Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe -- Parameterizing the age of the universe.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years ago to the origin of the universe nearly fourteen billion years ago.Hedman details,



for example, how interdisciplinary studies of the Great Pyramids of Egypt can determine exactly when and how these incredible structures were built. He shows how the remains of humble trees can illuminate how the surface

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462649603321

Autore

García Martínez Florentino

Titolo

Between philology and theology [[electronic resource] ] : contributions to the study of ancient Jewish interpretation / / by Florentino Garcia Martinez ; edited by Hindy Najman and Eibert Tigchelaar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85480-5

90-04-24394-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, , 1384-2161 ; ; v. 162

Altri autori (Persone)

NajmanHindy

TigchelaarEibert J. C

Disciplina

296.1

Soggetti

Hebrew philology

Judaism - Doctrines

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Florentino García Martínez -- 1. Abraham and the Gods: The Paths to Monotheism in Jewish Religion / Florentino García Martínez -- 2. The Foreskins of Angels / Florentino García Martínez -- 3. Geography as Theology: From the Book of Jubilees to the Phaleg by Arias Montano / Florentino García Martínez -- 4. The Heavenly Tablets in the Book of Jubilees / Florentino García Martínez -- 5. Balaam in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Florentino García Martínez -- 6. Divine Sonship at Qumran and in Philo / Florentino García Martínez -- 7. Eve’s Children in the Targumim / Florentino García Martínez -- 8. Sodom and Gomorrah in the Targumim / Florentino García Martínez -- 9. Hagar in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan / Florentino García Martínez -- 10. The Authority of 4 Ezra and the Discovery of America / Florentino



García Martínez -- 11. The Authority of 4 Ezra and the Jewish Origin of (Native) American Indians / Florentino García Martínez -- Subject Index / Sonja G. Anderson.

Sommario/riassunto

The essays by Florentino García Martínez collected in this volume reflect some of his most recent work on theological concepts as they are formed in the interpretations and in the imagination of ancient Jewish writers, and thus illuminate the nexus between philology and theology. The essays, five of which are published for the first time in English, engage a broad range of ancient Jewish texts ranging from Philo and the Dead Sea Scrolls, to Jubilees, 4 Ezra and the Targumim. Focus of the essays is the way in which ancient Jewish writers (and, in the case of 4 Ezra, Christian Renaissance authors) are interpreting and transforming earlier biblical traditions and how these new interpretations shape theological concepts.