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" Living the lunar calendar / "
edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele
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BL
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647532
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Living the lunar calendar /\ edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele
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Oxford ;Oakville, CT :: Oxbow Books,, c2012
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viii, 287 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9781842174814
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: 1842174819
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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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
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Calendars-- History-- To 1500
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Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian
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Calendar, Greek
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Calendar, Egyptian
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Jewish calendar
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529/.3
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CE25.L59 2012
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Ben-Dov, Jonathan
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Horowitz, Wayne,1957-
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Steele, John M
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