Living the lunar calendar / edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 387 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.