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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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IJS studies in Judaica,
1570-1581 ;
volume 14
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IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 14.
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Conference proceedings of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
10 Parameters of this Research11 Structure of this Study; Chapter 1 Towards A New Interpretation of 4QZodiac Calendar ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Date; 1.1.2 Textual Structure and the 360-day Calendar; 1.1.3 The Lunar Zodiac in 4Q318; 1.2 Scholarship on 4Q318: Setting the Problem; 1.2.1 The Question of the thema mundi and MUL.APIN; 1.2.1.1 The 360-Day Calendar as a Qumran Issue; 1.3 Background to the Micro-zodiac: The Zodiac and the Months; 1.3.1 TCL 6.14: A Handbook of Astrology; 1.3.2 The Names of the Micro-zodiac Sub-Divisions; 1.3.3 The Gestirn-Darstellungen Texts. |
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1.4 The Babylonian Calendar, the 360-day Year and Intercalation1.4.1 The 360-Day Year and the Micro-zodiac; 1.4.2 Cuneiform Horoscopes and 4QZodiac Calendar; 1.4.3 4Q318 and the Rabbinical Calendar; 1.4.3.1 The Rabbinical Calendar Tested with 4Q318; 1.5 The Zodiac Sign Names in 4Q318; 1.5.1 The Aramaic Numerals; 1.6 Babylonian-Aramaic Month Names; 1.7 Material Description and Measurements; 1.7.1 Column iv of 4QZodiac Calendar; 1.7.2 Material Reconstruction: Published and Unpublished Reports; 1.7.3 Textual Reconstruction of 4QZodiac Calendar; 1.8 Summary and Conclusion. |
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Chapter 2 4QBrontologion: Transmission, Origins and Significance 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Background Scholarship; 2.1.2 Paleographical Issues; 2.1.3 Questions Raised by Geoponica; 2.2 Byzantine Brontologia with Calendars; 2.2.1 The Structural Twin to 4Q318; 2.2.2 An "Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar"; 2.2.3 More Byzantine Calendrical Omen Texts; 2.2.4 Parapegma with a Lost Brontologion; 2.2.5 Discussion; 2.3 Mesopotamian Science and Omen Literature; 2.3.1 Early Mesopotamian Lunar Omens and Thunder; 2.3.2 A Mesopotamian Calendrical Text with Omens. |
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2.3.3 Excursus: A Note on Medieval Brontologia and Zodiac Calendars2.4 Purpose; 2.4.1 The Skills of the Descending Angels; 2.4.2 Divine Poetry: The Stars in Liturgical and Literary Texts; 2.4.3 The Question of the Practitioner; 2.5 Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Aramaic Astronomical Book of Enoch Reconsidered in the Light of 4Q318 ; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 The Question of the Zodiac in the Ethiopic Book of Luminaries; 3.1.2 The 'Gates' in 1 En. 72 Reconsidered; 3.1.2.1. The 360+4 Day Year in the Ethiopic Book; 3.1.3 Ethiopic Computus Treatises and Zodiac Substitution. |
| Summary |
Helen R Jacobus demonstrates mathematically that the Aramaic calendar texts from Qumran were designed to show the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac for each day of the month forever. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dead Sea scrolls.
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Dead Sea scrolls. |
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Dead Sea scrolls. |
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Jewish calendar.
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Jewish calendar. |
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Jewish astronomy.
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Jewish astronomy. |
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SCIENCE -- Time. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jacobus, Helen R. Zodiac calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls and their reception 9789004284050 (DLC) 2014033847 (OCoLC)889167805 |
| ISBN |
9789004284067 (electronic book) |
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9004284060 (electronic book) |
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9789004284050 |
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9004284052 |
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