TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ben-Dov,Jonathan
TI  - Head of all years: astronomy and calendars at Qumran in their ancient context 
T2  - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah,
SN  - 9789047424192
AV  - CE35 .B395 2008eb
U1  - 529/.326 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Ethiopic book of Enoch
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Qumrantexte
KW  - gnd
KW  - Äthiopisches Henochbuch
KW  - swd
KW  - Jewish calendar
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish astronomy
KW  - Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
KW  - Calendrier juif
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Astronomie juive
KW  - Apocryphes (Ancien Testament)
KW  - Critique, interprétation, etc
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Time
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Kalender
KW  - Astronomie
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and indexes; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: UNIFYING ELEMENTS OF THE 364-DAY CALENDAR TRADITION; CHAPTER TWO: LUNAR THEORY AND THE COMPOSITION OF AB; CHAPTER THREE: THE TRIENNIAL CYCLE; CHAPTER FOUR: THE ASTRONOMICAL BOOK AND BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY: MUL. APIN AND EAE; CHAPTER FIVE: LUNAR PHASES IN THE MIŠMAROT SCROLLS AND LATE BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY; CHAPTER SIX: BETWEEN BABYLONIA AND JERUSALEM: THE NATURE AND DATE OF THE CONTACT; CHAPTER SEVEN: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORSINDEX OF SUBJECTS
N2  - Rather than being an isolated, primitive body of knowledge, the Jewish calendar tradition of 364 days constituted an integral part of the astronomical science of the ancient world. The calendar is studied here both from within - analysing its textual manifestations - and from without - via a comparison with Mesopotamian astronomy
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