| Description |
viii, 387 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Calendars -- History -- To 1500.
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Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Calendar, Greek.
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Calendar, Egyptian.
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Calendar, Jewish.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ben-Dov, Jonathan.
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Horowitz, Wayne, 1957-
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Steele, John M.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781842174814 |
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9781842179086 (electronic bk.) |
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