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Calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls

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1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls provides a valuable addition to the Dead Sea Scrolls Series and contributes to the elucidation of the scroll texts themselves and their relation to other Biblical texts.

Title Calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls : measuring time / James C. VanderKam.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1998
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-128) and indexes.
English
Content part PART I INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL AND POST-BIBLICAL CALENDARS -- chapter 1 THE HEBREW BIBLE -- chapter 2 SOURCES LATER THAN THE HEBREW BIBLE -- chapter 3 RABBINIC LITERATURE -- part PART II THE CALENDARS IN THE QUMRAN TEXTS -- chapter 4 THE FIRST CALENDRICAL HINTS -- chapter 5 A HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP ON THE QUMRAN CALENDARS -- chapter 6 THE CALENDRICAL TEXTS -- chapter 7 MEASURING AND SYMBOLIZING LONGER UNITS OF TIME -- chapter 8 CONCLUSIONS.
Series The literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls Calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls
Extent 1 online resource (viii, 136 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010703686505171
MARC RECORDS
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