Author : Roger T. Beckwith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780391041233
Difficult problems about early Jewish and Christian calendar and chronology are discussed here, with special attention to intertestamental evidence (Qumran and other). This evidence is both examined in itself and applied to illustrate significant biblical and patristic questions. Please note that "Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian"] was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 10586 7), no longer available)
Author : Roger T. Beckwith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004332871
Judaism and Christianity are both religions of history and remembrance and rely on calendars and accurate chronologies to recall and reenact the signal events in their histories. The import of dividing the day and night, of knowing the moment of Sabbath and Lord’s Day, of properly timing Passover and Easter cannot be overstated. Throughout the history of both religions, these issues were central to worship and practice of religion and had far-reaching effects from messianism to prophecy. But their very centrality meant they were issues of controversy and debate. Roger Beckwith looks carefully at the Jewish and Christian records concerning calendar and chronology, compares, contrasts, and challenges rival solutions to these complex questions. His breath of research — from the ancient Near East to Qumran, from Josephus and Philo to the Maccabean writings, and from the points of view of Paul and Jesus to the Fathers of the church — and his focus on the more controversial issues of dating make Calendar and Chronology an essential book for any serious scholar of history, liturgy, worship, and interpretation. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author : Roger T. Beckwith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047415477
This book takes as its theme the related issues of calendar, chronology and worship, as they were conceived and practised in ancient Jewish and early Christian times. After a general discussion of the way the three issues are related, there follow six chapters on the calendar, first the standard Jewish calendar, then the Qumran calendar (giving particular attention to the Book of Enoch and the Temple Scroll) and finally the Christian calendar - both the standard Christian calendar and that observed by the Montanists. Three chapters on chronology come next, one of them offering a chronological solution to a puzzling calendrical problem in the Dead Sea Scrolls, another relating Jewish eschatological expectations to New Testament teaching, and a third examining the chronological calculations of the Hellenistic Jew Demetrius, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Book of Jubilees. The three concluding chapters, on worship, include an investigation of the historical development of the Psalter and a careful survey of the relationship between ancient Jewish worship and early Christian. The book discusses a variety of issues that arise in modern biblical, intertestamental and patristic study, some neglected, some very controversial, and throws new light upon them.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 143911918X
Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.
Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004459693
Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.
Author : Kenneth F. Doig
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773499201
This work includes subjects of study relevant to both Christian and Jewish scholarship. It begins with the present Western calendar and steps back to the opening of Genesis. The calendar system is then followed forward to the Bar Kokhba revolt in the second century CE and the later establishment of the modern Jewish calendar. Detailed studies are presented on Herodian chronology and Pontius Pilate and the dating of the book of Acts completes the work.
Author : C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004212191
Drawing on computistical and astronomical sources from late antiquity to the Renaissance, this book demonstrates how pre-modern Christian attempts to determine the principal dates of the life of Jesus played an essential role in the development of historical chronology.
Author : Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0765760215
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Author : Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1619704099
This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship.Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration.Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation.Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices.Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).
Author : Harold W. Hoehner
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310877105
"Jesus Christ entered into the history of our world. Christianity, therefore, has historical basis. The backbone of history is chronology. Whereas history is a systematic account of events in relation to a nation, institution, science, or art; chronology is a science of time. It seeks to establish and arrange the dates of past events in their proper sequence. Thus chronology serves as a necessary framework upon which the events of history must be fitted. In this book (the author) attempts to establish certain fixed dates in our Lord's life." - Dr. Harold W. Hoehner. Dr. Hoehner has gathered a vast amount of data, both from Scripture and extrabiblical sources, to support his conclusions concerning key dates in the life of our Lord, among them: - The Date of Christ's Birth - The Commencement of Christ's Ministry - The Duration of Christ's Ministry - The Year of Christ's Crucifixion He carefully documents his position and compares the date available--including a study of Greek words, Roman law, and Jewish customs and prophecy.
