An edition of Calendar and community
(2001)
Calendar and community
a history of the Jewish calendar, second century BCE-tenth century CE
by Sacha Stern
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Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CE
2001, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Calendar and community: a history of the Jewish calendar, second century BCE-tenth century CE
2001, Oxford University Press
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Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century Bce to 10th Century Ce
2001, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 Solar and lunar calendars
1.1 From biblical origins to the end of the Roman period: the
rise of the lunar calendar
1.1.1 Biblical sources
1.1.2 The Hellenistic and Hasmonaean periods
1.1.3 Ethiopic Enoch
1.1.4 Slavonic Enoch
1.1.5 Jubilees
1.1.6 Qumran sources: the calendars
1.1.7 Qumran sources and calendrical practice
1.1.8 Qumran calendars and sectarianism
1.1.9 The first century CE and beyond: the end of the
solar calendar
1.1.10 Philo of Alexandria
1.1.11 Josephus
1.1.12 Second to sixth centuries CE: literary sources.
1.1.13 First to sixth centuries CE: inscriptions and docu-
ments
1.2 Jewish and non-Jewish calendars
1.2.1 The 'Jewish' calendar
1.2.2 Persian, Seleucid and Hasmonaean periods
1.2.3 Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt
1.2.4 Josephus: calendars in early Roman Judaea
1.2.5 Babatha's archive: the spread of the solar calendar
1.2.6 The Jewish calendar in the Roman Empire
5The intercalation
12. Introduction
2.1.1 The procedure of intercalation
2.1.2 The 'limits' of lunisolar synchronization
2.1.3 The evidence
F,2 The early period: Enoch, Qumran, and other sources
2.2.1 Lunisolar cycles
2.2.2 The rule of the equinox
2.3 The first century: Philo, Josephus, and epigraphic sources
2.3.1 Philo of Alexandria
2.3.2 Josephus
2.3.3 Passover in Jerusalem, 37 CE
2.3.4 The Berenike inscription
2.3.5 Conclusion
2.4 The second and third centuries
2.5 The fourth century: Passover and the Christian Easter
2.5.1 The rule of the equinox in the fourth century
2.5.2 From the first century to the fourth: a radical change
2.5.3 The 'limits' of Passover: Peter of Alexandria and
the Sardica document
2.5.4 Calendrical diversity: evidence from theCouncil of
Nicaea
2.6 The fourth to sixth centuries: the persistence of diversity
2.6.1 Justinian's decree,I
2.6.2 The ketubah of Antinoopolis:
2.6.3 The Zoar inscriptions
2.6.4 Conclusion
3 The new moon
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 The 'new moon': some definitions.
31.2 Calculation and observaiion
3.1.3 The Jewish lunar calendar
3.1.4 The Magharians;
3.1.5 The evidence of Jewish dates
3.1.6 Astronomical data
3.1.7 Visibility and sightin of thenew moon
3.1.8 The conjunction.
3.1.9 Non-lunar factors.
3.2 The earlperiod the sighting of te new moon
3.2.1 John Ilyrcanus and Josephus
3.2.2 Philo of Alexandria
3.2.3 The Berenike inscriptions
3.2.4 Cestius' assault on Jerusalem, 66 CE.
3.2.5 Second-century sources,
3.3 The later period: the day of the conjunction
3.3.1 The Sardica document
3.3.2 The Catania inscription
3.3.3 The ketubah of Antinoopolis
33.34 Conclusion: the shift to the conjunction
3.4 The later period: the persistence of diversity
3.4.1 The letter of Ambrose
3.4.2 The Zoar inscriptions
3.4.3 Conclusion
The rabbinic calendar: development and history
4.1 The Mishnaic calendar
4.1.1 The new month
4.1.2 The intercalation
4.1.3 Theory and reality
4.2 The Talmudic period
4.2.1 The empirical calendar
4.2.2 Calendrical rules
4.2.3 The fixed calendar
4.2.4 The Hillel tradition
4.2.5 The 'institution' of the fixed calendar
4.3 The Geonic period
4.3.1 Evidence of divergences from the present-day rab-
binic calendar
4.3.2 The Geonic calendar(s)
4.3.3 The calendrical court
4.4 The emergence of the present-day rabbinic calendar
4.4.1 The present-day rabbinic calendar: an outline
4.4.2 The sequence of months
4.4.3 The rule of lo ADU
4.4.4 The rule of molad zaqen
4.4.5 The 19-year cycle
4.4.6 The calculation of the molad: the evidence
4.4,7 The origins of the present-day rabbinic molad
Calendar and community: the emergence of the normative Jewish
calendar
5.1 Why the rabbinic calendar changed: some theories
5.11 The persecution theory
5.1.2 The Christian influence theory
5.1.3 The scientific progress theory
i,2 The 'one calendar' theory
5.2.1 'The theory in Geonic and later medieval sources
5.2.2 'One calendar': the Christian parallel
5.2.3 Unification as a rabbinic policy
5.3 Palestine and Babylonia: the single rabbinic community
5.3.1 The ideal of calendrical unanimity
5.3.2 Calendrical unanimity and the Babylonian commu-
nity
5.3.3 Calendrical dissidence in Babylonia
5.3.4 Calendar prediction in Babylonia
5.3.5 From calendrical rules to the fixed calendar.
5.4 The Babylonian origins of the normative Jewish calendar
5.4.1 Calendrical rules in Babylonia
5.4.2 Calendar calculation in Babylonia
5.4.3 The erosion of Palestinian authority
5.4.4 The R. Saadya-Ben Meir controversy
5.4.5 The 'four parts table'
5.4.6 The calculation of the molad
Appendix: The Exilarch's Letter of 835/6 CE
References
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-302) and index.
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