The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar
The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar

Author: Arthur Spier

Publisher: Feldheim Publishers

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780873063982

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Lists the corresponding Hebrew and civil dates for the years 1900-2100, with the Torah portion and haftarah for every Sabbath, and more. A special introduction explains the calculation of the calendar.

The Jewish Calendar
The Jewish Calendar

Author: David Feinstein

Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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When the Syrian-Greeks - in the time of Chanukah - wanted to undermine and eventually destroy Jewish life, one of the three commandments they tried to abolish was the proclamation of Rosh Chodesh. They knew that without a calendar as ordained by the To

Calendar and Community
Calendar and Community

Author: Sacha Stern

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-10-04

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0198270348

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Calendar 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.