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The Jewish calendar controversy of 921/2 CE /
"In the year 921/2, the Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia disagreed on how to calculate the calendar. This controversy led to the celebration of Passover and other festivals, through two years, on different dates. Although the whole Jewish Near East was drawn into the controversy, it wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden Boston :
BRILL,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Time, astronomy, and calendars ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the year 921/2, the Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia disagreed on how to calculate the calendar. This controversy led to the celebration of Passover and other festivals, through two years, on different dates. Although the whole Jewish Near East was drawn into the controversy, it was later forgotten, until its 19th-century rediscovery in the Cairo Genizah. The faulty editions of these texts have led to much misunderstanding about the nature and aftermath of the controversy. In this book, Sacha Stern re-edits completely the texts, discovers many more, and challenges the consensus on the controversy's history. This book sheds light on medieval Rabbanite relations, and on the processes that brought about the standardization of the calendar in medieval Jewry." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 576 pages) : facsimilies (chiefly color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004388672 9789004388673 |