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UNINA9910779787003321 |
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Titolo |
Living the lunar calendar / / editors, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele |
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Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-84217-906-3 |
1-84217-908-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 387 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Ben-DovJonathan |
HorowitzWayne <1957-> |
SteeleJohn M |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Calendars - History - To 1500 |
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian |
Calendar, Greek |
Calendar, Egyptian |
Calendar, Jewish |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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