Living the lunar calendar
By: edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781842174814
Subjects: Greek Calendar; Egyptian Calendar; History; Calendars; Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian; Jewish Calendar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Forward / Amanda Weiss; title: Introduction / Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele; title: Sunday in Mesopotamia / Wayne Horowitz; title: Middle Assyrian lunar calendar and chronology / Yigal Bloch; title: Beyond the moon : Minoan calendar-symbolism in the blue bird fresco / Sabine Beckman; title: Early Greek lunisolar cycles : the Pythian and olympic games / Robert Hannah; title: What to do on the thirtieth? : a neo-Platonic interpretation of Hesiod's works and days, 765-8 / Patrizia Marzillo; title: Why Greek lunar months began a day later than Egyptian lunar months, both before first visibility of the new crescent / Leo Depuydt; title: Lunar calendars at Qumran : a comparative and ideological study / Jonathan Ben-Dov; title: Tame and wild time in the Qumran and Rabbinic calendar / Ron H. Feldman; title: The Rabbinic new moon procedure : context and significance / Sacha Stern; title: From observation to calculation : the development of the Rabbinic lunar calendar / Lawrence H. Schiffman.