Calendar, chronology, and worship : studies in ancient Judaism and early Christianity /

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 Jew...

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Main Author: Beckwith, Roger T.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 61.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

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Call Number: CE35 .B37 2005

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Relationship of Calendar, Chronology and Worship
  • A Recent Approach to the Jewish Calendar: Sacha Stern's Calendar and Community
  • The Earliest Enoch Literature and its Calendar: Marks of their Origin, Date and Motivation
  • The Significance of the 364-day Calendar for the Old Testament Canon
  • The Qumran Temple Scroll and its Calendar: their Character and Purpose
  • The Three Cycles of the Christian Year
  • The Calendar of the Montanists
  • The Early Jewish Quest for a Patriarchal Chronology
  • The Qumran Six-Jubilee Cycle: a Reconsideration
  • The Fullness of Time in New Testament and Jewish Thinking
  • Factors bearing on the Early History of the Psalter
  • Daily and Weekly Worship: from Jewish to Christian
  • Worship on Special Occasions: from Jewish to Christian
  • Indexes
  • Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.