Product Description: In this work Michael A. Daise broaches the question of the rationale lying behind the six feasts mentioned in the Gospel of John. He argues that, in an earlier recension of the Fourth Gospel, those feasts were sequenced into a single, liturgical year and, as such, furnished temporal momentum for the concurrent motif of Jesus' 'hour'...read more

Product Description: This volume deals with the chronological and spatial conceptions underlying the Book of Jubilees, a Jewish apocalyptic writing of the mid-second century BCE, and shows how in these respects Jubilees forms a bridge between the earlier Enochic tradition and the later Qumran sectarian writings...read more

Product Description: What is the relationship of the Jewish Holidays to their Fast Days? How do Jewish ritual practices circumcision, tefillin, prayer express the underlying link between the individual s personal life cycle and the life cycle of the Nation? Steven Ettinger presents the major events in the lives of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, and connects them to the core of the Jewish life cycle...read more

Product Description: This work provides a comprehensive survey of the various calendars found in the ancient world and then discusses the redaction of the Book of Psalms in this light. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about the different uses of time-measurement in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. He argues that the scrolls indicate that a dispute about the correct calendar for dating festivals was one of the principal reasons for the separation of the authors of the scrolls from Jewish society.

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 highly original book, spiced heavily with humor, is an anthology of essays about Jewish holidays and other calendar events. In the essays presented int he book, the reader will come to appreciate that practices considered indispensable to today's standards were once topics of heated controversy between proponents of differing interpretations of Judaism...read more

Product Description: Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, there has been a debate about the relationship of the covenanters and their library to Jerusalem's Temple, as well as speculation about the viability of their 364-day calendar (seen also in Jubilees and First Enoch)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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