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Time, astronomy, and calendars in the Jewish tradition

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The study of time, astronomy, and calendars, has been closely intertwined in the history of Western culture and, more particularly, Jewish tradition. Jewish interest in astronomy was fostered by the Jewish calendar, which was based on the courses of the sun and the moon, whilst astronomy, in turn, led to a better understanding of how time should be reckoned. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition , edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett, presents a wide selection of original research in this multi-disciplinary field, ranging from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages. Its variety of approaches and sub-themes reflects the relevance of astronomy and calendars to many aspects of Jewish, and more generally ancient and medieval, culture and social history. Contributors include: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Reimund Leicht, Marina Rustow, Francois de Blois, Raymond Mercier, Philipp Nothaft, Josefina Rodriguez Arribas, Ilana Wartenberg, Israel Sandman, Justine Isserles, Anne C. Kineret Sittig, Katharina Keim, and Sacha Stern

Title Time, astronomy, and calendars in the Jewish tradition / Sacha Stern, Charles Burnett
editors.
Publisher Leiden, Netherlands : Brill
Creation Date 2014
Notes "The study of time, astronomy, and calendars, has been closely intertwined in the history of Western culture and, more particularly, Jewish tradition. Jewish interest in astronomy was fostered by the Jewish calendar, which was based on the courses of the sun and the moon, whist astronomy, in turn, led to a better understanding of how time should be reckoned. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish tradition, edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett, presents a wide selection of original research in this multi-disciplinary field, ranging from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages. Its variety of approaches and sub-themes reflects the relevance of astronomy and calendars to many aspects of Jewish, and more generally ancient and medieval, culture and social history. Contributors include: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Reimund Leicht, Marina Rustow, Francois de Blois, Raymond Mercier, Philipp Nothaft, Josefina Rodriguez Arribas, Ilana Wartenberg, Israel Sandman, Justine Isserles, Anne C. Kineret Sittig, Katharina Keim, and Sacha Stern"--Summary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Preliminary Material -- 1. A Jewish Parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman Egypt / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- 2. Observing the Moon: Astronomical and Cosmological Aspects in the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure / Reimund Leicht -- 3. Cosmology as Science or Cosmology as Theology? Reflections on the Astronomical Chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer / Katharina Keim -- 4. Some Early Islamic and Christian Sources Regarding the Jewish Calendar (9th–11th centuries) / François de Blois -- 5. The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921–22: Reconstructing the Manuscripts and their Transmission History / Marina Rustow and Sacha Stern -- 6. The Hebrew Calendrical Bookshelf of the Early Twelfth Century: The Cases of Abraham bar Ḥiyya and Jacob bar Samson / Ilana Wartenberg -- 7. Scribal Prerogative in Modifying Calendrical Tables / Israel M. Sandman -- 8. Astronomical Tables of Abraham bar Ḥiyya / Raymond Mercier -- 9. The Sabbath Epistle by Abraham Ibn Ezra: Its Purpose and Novelty / Anne C. Kineret Sittig -- 10. Medieval Jews and Medieval Astrolabes: Where, Why, How, and What For? / Josefina Rodríguez Arribas -- 11. Some Hygiene and Dietary Calendars in Hebrew Manuscripts from Medieval Ashkenaz / Justine Isserles -- 12. Me pudet audire Iudeum talia scire: A Late Medieval Latin School Text on the Jewish Calendar / C. Philipp E. Nothaft.
Series Time, astronomy, and calendars, 2211-632X
Volume 3
Extent 1 online resource (387 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010713040705171
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