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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.: 9910817735803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II