Living the lunar calendar / edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele.
| Other author | Ben-Dov, Jonathan. |
| Other author | Horowitz, Wayne, 1957- |
| Other author | Steele, John M. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, |
| Description | viii, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012008148 2012427677 |
| ISBN | 9781842174814 |