Calendar, chronology, and worship : : studies in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / / by Roger T. Beckwith.

• Superior document: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, v. 61
• Author: Beckwith, Roger T.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages).

This book takes as its theme the related issues of calendar, chronology and worship, as they were conceived and practised in ancient Jewish and early Christian times. After a general discussion of the way the three issues are related, there follow six chapters on the calendar, first the standard Jew...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• The Relationship of Calendar, Chronology and Worship
• A Recent Approach to the Jewish Calendar: Sacha Stern’s Calendar and Community
• The Earliest Enoch Literature and its Calendar: Marks of their Origin, Date and Motivation
• The Significance of the 364-day Calendar for the Old Testament Canon
• The Qumran Temple Scroll and its Calendar: their Character and Purpose
• The Three Cycles of the Christian Year
• The Calendar of the Montanists
• The Early Jewish Quest for a Patriarchal Chronology
• The Qumran Six-Jubilee Cycle: a Reconsideration
• The Fullness of Time in New Testament and Jewish Thinking
• Factors bearing on the Early History of the Psalter
• Daily and Weekly Worship: from Jewish to Christian
• Worship on Special Occasions: from Jewish to Christian
• Indexes
• Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.