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Record Nr.

UNINA9911107419803321

Titolo

Living the lunar calendar / / editors, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2012

ISBN

9781842179062

1842179063

9781842179086

184217908X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 387 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

Ben-DovJonathan

HorowitzWayne <1957->

SteeleJohn M

Disciplina

529/.3

Soggetti

Calendars - History - To 1500

Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian

Calendar, Greek

Calendar, Egyptian

Jewish calendar

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.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance.