Living the lunar calendar

Living the lunar calendar /

"Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars...

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Other Authors: Ben-Dov, Jonathan (Editor), Horowitz, Wayne, 1957- (Editor), Steele, John M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2012
Subjects:
Calendars > History > To 1500.
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.
Calendar, Greek.
Calendar, Egyptian.
Jewish calendar.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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 calendars / 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
  • The harmonization of the lunar yaer with the Julian calendar by Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea / Daniel P. Mc Carthy
  • Between crucifixion and calendar reform: medieval christian perceptions of the Jewish lunisolar calendar / Carl Phillip Emanuel Nothaft
  • Christian calendrical fragments from Turfan / Mark Dickens and Nocholas Sims-Williams
  • Lunar tables in medieval Russia / Michael L. Gorodetsky
  • Telling time with the moon: an American overview / StanisÅ‚aw Iwaniszewski
  • Lunar ceremonial planning in the ancient American Southwest / James Walton
  • Adjusting calculations to the ideal in the Chinese and Japanese calendars / Susan Tsumura
  • Living with a lunar calendar in Mesopotamia and China / Joh M. Steele

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