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Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CE

By Sacha Stern

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0198270348, 9780198270348, 9780191520785
LCC
CE35 .S855 2001
Open Library ID
OL3579293M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2121002 bytes)
Pages
312\323
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the 10th century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of literary, documentary, and epigraphic sources, this is the first comprehensive book to have been written on this subject. Stern shows that the Jewish calendar evolved during this period from considerable diversity (a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity. This consolidation of the calendar is one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the early medieval world.

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