Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish TraditionSacha Stern, Charles Burnett The study of time, astronomy, and calendars, has been closely intertwined in the history of Western culture and, more particularly, Jewish tradition. Jewish interest in astronomy was fostered by the Jewish calendar, which was based on the courses of the sun and the moon, whilst astronomy, in turn, led to a better understanding of how time should be reckoned. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition, edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett, presents a wide selection of original research in this multi-disciplinary field, ranging from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages. Its variety of approaches and sub-themes reflects the relevance of astronomy and calendars to many aspects of Jewish, and more generally ancient and medieval, culture and social history. Contributors include: Jonathan Ben-Dov, Reimund Leicht, Marina Rustow, Francois de Blois, Raymond Mercier, Philipp Nothaft, Josefina Rodriguez Arribas, Ilana Wartenberg, Israel Sandman, Justine Isserles, Anne C. Kineret Sittig, Katharina Keim, and Sacha Stern |
Contents
Chapter 1 A Jewish Parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman Egypt | 1 |
Astronomical and Cosmological Aspects in the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure | 27 |
Chapter 3 Cosmology as Science or Cosmology as Theology? Reflections on the Astronomical Chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer | 41 |
Chapter 4 Some Early Islamic and Christian Sources Regarding the Jewish Calendar 9th11th centuries | 65 |
Reconstructing the Manuscripts and their Transmission History | 79 |
The Cases of Abraham bar Hiyya and Jacob bar Samson | 97 |
Chapter 7 Scribal Prerogative in Modifying Calendrical Tables | 113 |
Chapter 8 Astronomical Tables of Abraham bar Hiyya | 155 |
Its Purpose and Novelty | 209 |
Where Why How and What For? | 221 |
Chapter 11 Some Hygiene and Dietary Calendars in Hebrew Manuscripts from Medieval Ashkenaz | 273 |
A Late Medieval Latin School Text on the Jewish Calendar | 327 |
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