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Darrera modificació: 2014-12-20
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Stern, Sacha - Burnett, Charles (eds.), Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition, Leiden, Brill, 2013.
- Resum
- 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. This book 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.
Contents:
* A Jewish Parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman Egypt / Jonathan Ben-Dov
* Observing the Moon: Astronomical and Cosmological Aspects in the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure / Reimund Leicht
* Cosmology as Science or Cosmology as Theology? Reflections on the Astronomical Chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer / Katharina Keim
* Some Early Islamic and Christian Sources Regarding the Jewish Calendar (9th-11th centuries) / François de Blois
* The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921–22: Reconstructing the Manuscripts and their Transmission History / Marina Rustow & Sacha Stern
* The Hebrew Calendrical Bookshelf of the Early Twelfth Century: The Cases of Abraham bar Ḥiyya and Jacob bar Samson / Ilana Wartenberg
* Scribal Prerogative in Modifying Calendrical Tables / Israel M. Sandman
* Astronomical Tables of Abraham bar Ḥiyya / Raymond Mercier
* The Sabbath Epistle by Abraham Ibn Ezra: its Purpose and Novelty / Anne C. Kinneret Sittig
* Medieval Jews and Medieval Astrolabes: Where, Why, How, and What For? / Josefina Rodríguez Arribas
* Some Hygiene and Dietary Calendars in Hebrew Manuscripts from Medieval Ashkenaz / Justine Isserles
* Nothaft (2013), "«Me pudet audire Iudeum talia ..."
- Matèries
- Calendaris
Astronomia i astrologia
Jueus
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