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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 387 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 529/.3
• Soggetto topico: Calendars - History - To 1500; Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian; Calendar, Greek; Calendar, Egyptian; Calendar, Jewish
• Altri autori: Ben-DovJonathan HorowitzWayne <1957-> SteeleJohn M
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Living the lunar calendar
• ISBN: 1-84217-906-3; 1-84217-908-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779787003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II