Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This text deals with challenging problems in Jewish and early Christian thought and practice, within areas of the calendar and chronology. The new problems are intertestamental, and include the Qumran calendar. The old problems all have a Christian bearing, and are biblical or patristic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This hardback book is new and has never been read. Has a minor crease on the top front of the dust cover.