Calendar and community
Subtitle: a history of the Jewish calendar, second century BCE-tenth century CE
By: Sacha Stern.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Calendar, Jewish -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Solar and lunar calendars; title: 1.1 From biblical origins to the end of the Roman period: the; title: rise of the lunar calendar; title: 1.1.1 Biblical sources; title: 1.1.2 The Hellenistic and Hasmonaean periods; title: 1.1.3 Ethiopic Enoch; title: 1.1.4 Slavonic Enoch; title: 1.1.5 Jubilees; title: 1.1.6 Qumran sources: the calendars; title: 1.1.7 Qumran sources and calendrical practice; title: 1.1.8 Qumran calendars and sectarianism; title: 1.1.9 The first century CE and beyond: the end of the; title: solar calendar; title: 1.1.10 Philo of Alexandria; title: 1.1.11 Josephus; title: 1.1.12 Second to sixth centuries CE: literary sources.; title: 1.1.13 First to sixth centuries CE: inscriptions and docu-; title: ments; title: 1.2 Jewish and non-Jewish calendars; title: 1.2.1 The 'Jewish' calendar; title: 1.2.2 Persian, Seleucid and Hasmonaean periods; title: 1.2.3 Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt; title: 1.2.4 Josephus: calendars in early Roman Judaea; title: 1.2.5 Babatha's archive: the spread of the solar calendar; title: 1.2.6 The Jewish calendar in the Roman Empire; title: 5The intercalation; title: 12. Introduction; title: 2.1.1 The procedure of intercalation; title: 2.1.2 The 'limits' of lunisolar synchronization; title: 2.1.3 The evidence; title: F,2 The early period: Enoch, Qumran, and other sources; title: 2.2.1 Lunisolar cycles; title: 2.2.2 The rule of the equinox; title: 2.3 The first century: Philo, Josephus, and epigraphic sources; title: 2.3.1 Philo of Alexandria; title: 2.3.2 Josephus; title: 2.3.3 Passover in Jerusalem, 37 CE; title: 2.3.4 The Berenike inscription; title: 2.3.5 Conclusion; title: 2.4 The second and third centuries; title: 2.5 The fourth century: Passover and the Christian Easter; title: 2.5.1 The rule of the equinox in the fourth century; title: 2.5.2 From the first century to the fourth: a radical change; title: 2.5.3 The 'limits' of Passover: Peter of Alexandria and; title: the Sardica document; title: 2.5.4 Calendrical diversity: evidence from theCouncil of; title: Nicaea; title: 2.6 The fourth to sixth centuries: the persistence of diversity; title: 2.6.1 Justinian's decree,I; title: 2.6.2 The ketubah of Antinoopolis:; title: 2.6.3 The Zoar inscriptions; title: 2.6.4 Conclusion; title: 3 The new moon; title: 3.1 Introduction; title: 3.1.1 The 'new moon': some definitions.; title: 31.2 Calculation and observaiion; title: 3.1.3 The Jewish lunar calendar; title: 3.1.4 The Magharians;; title: 3.1.5 The evidence of Jewish dates; title: 3.1.6 Astronomical data; title: 3.1.7 Visibility and sightin of thenew moon; title: 3.1.8 The conjunction.; title: 3.1.9 Non-lunar factors.; title: 3.2 The earlperiod the sighting of te new moon; title: 3.2.1 John Ilyrcanus and Josephus; title: 3.2.2 Philo of Alexandria; title: 3.2.3 The Berenike inscriptions; title: 3.2.4 Cestius' assault on Jerusalem, 66 CE.; title: 3.2.5 Second-century sources,; title: 3.3 The later period: the day of the conjunction; title: 3.3.1 The Sardica document; title: 3.3.2 The Catania inscription; title: 3.3.3 The ketubah of Antinoopolis; title: 33.34 Conclusion: the shift to the conjunction; title: 3.4 The later period: the persistence of diversity; title: 3.4.1 The letter of Ambrose; title: 3.4.2 The Zoar inscriptions; title: 3.4.3 Conclusion; title: The rabbinic calendar: development and history; title: 4.1 The Mishnaic calendar; title: 4.1.1 The new month; title: 4.1.2 The intercalation; title: 4.1.3 Theory and reality; title: 4.2 The Talmudic period; title: 4.2.1 The empirical calendar; title: 4.2.2 Calendrical rules; title: 4.2.3 The fixed calendar; title: 4.2.4 The Hillel tradition; title: 4.2.5 The 'institution' of the fixed calendar; title: 4.3 The Geonic period; title: 4.3.1 Evidence of divergences from the present-day rab-; title: binic calendar; title: 4.3.2 The Geonic calendar(s); title: 4.3.3 The calendrical court; title: 4.4 The emergence of the present-day rabbinic calendar; title: 4.4.1 The present-day rabbinic calendar: an outline; title: 4.4.2 The sequence of months; title: 4.4.3 The rule of lo ADU; title: 4.4.4 The rule of molad zaqen; title: 4.4.5 The 19-year cycle; title: 4.4.6 The calculation of the molad: the evidence; title: 4.4,7 The origins of the present-day rabbinic molad; title: Calendar and community: the emergence of the normative Jewish; title: calendar; title: 5.1 Why the rabbinic calendar changed: some theories; title: 5.11 The persecution theory; title: 5.1.2 The Christian influence theory; title: 5.1.3 The scientific progress theory; title: i,2 The 'one calendar' theory; title: 5.2.1 'The theory in Geonic and later medieval sources; title: 5.2.2 'One calendar': the Christian parallel; title: 5.2.3 Unification as a rabbinic policy; title: 5.3 Palestine and Babylonia: the single rabbinic community; title: 5.3.1 The ideal of calendrical unanimity; title: 5.3.2 Calendrical unanimity and the Babylonian commu-; title: nity; title: 5.3.3 Calendrical dissidence in Babylonia; title: 5.3.4 Calendar prediction in Babylonia; title: 5.3.5 From calendrical rules to the fixed calendar.; title: 5.4 The Babylonian origins of the normative Jewish calendar; title: 5.4.1 Calendrical rules in Babylonia; title: 5.4.2 Calendar calculation in Babylonia; title: 5.4.3 The erosion of Palestinian authority; title: 5.4.4 The R. Saadya-Ben Meir controversy; title: 5.4.5 The 'four parts table'; title: 5.4.6 The calculation of the molad; title: Appendix: The Exilarch's Letter of 835/6 CE; title: References; title: Index.