Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del 7 i serien Time, Astronomy, and Calendars

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Beskrivning

In the year 921/2, the Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia disagreed on how to calculate the calendar. This led the Jews of the entire Near East to celebrate Passover and the other festivals, through two years, on different dates. The controversy was major, but it became forgotten until its late 19th-century rediscovery in the Cairo Genizah. Faulty editions of the texts, in the following decades, led to much misunderstanding about the nature, leadership, and aftermath of the controversy. In this book, Sacha Stern re-edits the texts completely, discovers many new Genizah sources, and challenges the historical consensus. This book sheds light on early medieval Rabbanite leadership and controversies, and on the processes that eventually led to the standardization of the medieval Jewish calendar.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-12
Mått:155 x 235 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 071 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
Antal sidor:578
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004388666

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Mer om författaren

Sacha Stern (DPhil. Oxon. 1992) is Professor of Jewish Studies at University College London. He is the author of Calendar and Community: a History of the Jewish Calendar (Oxford 2001) and Calendars in Antiquity (Oxford 2012).

Recensioner i media

"This volume, both readable and handsomely produced, includes a detailed historical treatment of the controversy, as well as a critical edition based on five manuscripts and diplomatic editions of each reconstructed manuscript, letters and other polemical writings that circulated during 921–922, and later sources from the following centuries. (...) This new treatment of the controversy is long overdue and very welcome." - Melonie Schmierer-Lee, in: Genizah Fragments, October 2019

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAbbreviationsEditorial Policies; List of Manuscripts and SiglaPart 1 Introduction1 The Controversy Revisited2 Palestinians and Babylonians in Conflict3 Discovery and Early Scholarship4 Manuscripts, Texts, History: A New Approach5 The Jewish Calendar: The Controversy ExplainedPart 2 The Book of the Calendar Controversy6 Introduction7 Critical Edition8 Diplomatic EditionsPart 3 Letters and Polemics, c. 922 CE9 Ben Meir’s First Letter10 Saadya’s Letters11 Letters Miscellany12 Babylonian Letter 113 Babylonian Letter 214 Discourse on the Midday Limit15 Palestinian PolemicPart 4 Later Sources16 Short References and Narratives (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ, Hayye Gaon, Elias of Nisibis, and Various Genizah Sources)17 Palestinian Calendar ManualsConclusionGlossaryReferencesIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral IndexPlates