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Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-02
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9004388672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 921/2, the Jews of Palestine and Babylonia disagreed about the calendar, and celebrated their festivals, through two years, on different dates. Sacha Stern re-edits the texts from the Cairo Genizah, contributes new discoveries, and revises entirely the history of the controversy.
Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-04-26
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9004459693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.
Author: Stanley Mirvis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 030025203X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth look at the Portuguese Jews of Jamaica and their connections to broader European and Atlantic trade networks Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis examines how Jamaica’s Jews put down roots as traders, planters, pen keepers, physicians, fishermen, and metalworkers, and reveals how their presence shaped the colony as much as settlement in the tropical West Indies transformed the lives of the island’s Jews.
Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-10-04
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0198270348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject.It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from considerable diversity (with a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity (with the normative rabbinic calendar). The unification of the calendar was one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the earlymedieval world.
Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0199589445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, from the origins up to and including Jewish and Christian calendars in late Antiquity.
Author: M. E. D'Imperio
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn spite of all the papers that others have written about the manuscript, there is no complete survey of all the approaches, ideas, background information and analytic studies that have accumulated over the nearly fifty-five years since the manuscript was discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich in 1912. This report pulls together all the information the author could obtain from all the sources she has examined, and to present it in an orderly fashion. The resulting survey will provide a firm basis upon which other students may build their work, whether they seek to decipher the text or simply to learn more about the problem.
Author: Michael Borgolte
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 783
ISBN-13: 9004415084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE, Michael Borgolte investigates the origins and development of foundations from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In his survey foundations emerge not as mere legal institutions, but rather as “total social phenomena” which touch upon manifold aspects, including politics, the economy, art and religion of the cultures in which they emerged. Cross-cultural in its approach and the result of decades of research, this work represents by far the most comprehensive account of the history of foundations that has hitherto been published.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-08
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9004352643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the entwinement of science and philosophy in the conceptions of the Renaissance thinker Bernardino Telesio. His vistas are considered from an interdisciplinary perspective bringing together the histories of philosophy, physics, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, and psychology.
Author: David Stern
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271084831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays and studies of diverse texts and topics in medieval and early modern Jewish literature, using contemporary critical approaches and textual analysis to explore larger ideas and themes in rabbinic Judaism.
