Living the lunar calendar
Living the lunar calendar [electronic resource] /
edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele.
- Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2012.
- viii, 387 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Calendars--History--To 1500.
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.
Calendar, Greek.
Calendar, Egyptian.
Calendar, Jewish.
Electronic books.
CE25 / .L59 2012
529/.3
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Calendars--History--To 1500.
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.
Calendar, Greek.
Calendar, Egyptian.
Calendar, Jewish.
Electronic books.
CE25 / .L59 2012
529/.3