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Time, astronomy, and calendars in the Jewish tradition /
"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 tu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Time, astronomy, and calendars ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Jewish parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman Egypt / Jonathan Ben-Dov
- Observing the moon: astronomical and cosmological aspects in the rabbinic new moon procedure / Reimund Leicht
- Cosmology as science or cosmology as theology? Reflections on the astronomical chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer / Katharina Keim
- Some early Islamic and Christian sources regarding the Jewish calendar (9th-11th centuries) / François de Blois
- The Jewish calendar controversy of 921-22: reconstructing the manuscripts and their transmission history / Marina Rustow and Sacha Stern
- The Hebrew calendrical bookshelf of the early twelfth century: the cases of Abraham bar Ḥiyya and Jacob bar Samson / Ilana Wartenberg
- Scribal prerogative in modifying calendrical tables / Israel M. Sandman
- Astronomical tables of Abraham bar Ḥiyya / Raymond Mercier
- The Sabbath epistle by Abraham Ibn Ezra: its purpose and novelty / Anne C. Kineret Sittig
- Medieval Jews and medieval astrolabes: where, why, how, and what for? / Josefina Rodríguez Arribas
- Some hygiene and dietary calendars in Hebrew manuscripts from medieval Ashkenaz / Justine Isserles
- Me pudet audire Iudeum talia scire: a late medieval Latin school text on the Jewish calendar / C. Philipp E. Nothaft.