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Subject(s)

• Time in the Bible [Browse]
• Time—Biblical teaching [Browse]
• Jewish calendar [Browse]
• Jewish chronology [Browse]
• Church year—History [Browse]
• Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• Dead Sea scrolls [Browse]

Series

• Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Volume 33. [More in this series]
• Arbeiten Zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums Series ; Volume 33

Summary note

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.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• The Day: its Divisions and its Limits in Biblical Times
• The Sabbath and Sunday
• Easter and Whitsun: the Origin of the Church's Earliest Annual Festivals
• The Date of Christmas and the Courses of the Priests
• The Perpetual Calendar of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Qumran Psalter: the Courses of the Levites and the Use of the Psalms at Qumran
• Judaism Between the Testaments: the Stages of its Religious Development
• The Year of the Messiah: Jewish and Early Christian Chronologies, and Their Eschatological Consequences
• The Date of the Crucifixion: the Misuse of Calendars and Astronomy to Determine the Chronology of the Pass
• A Time, Times and Half a Time: the Revelation of the Prophet John and the Three-and-a-Half Times
• Indexes
• Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums by Martin Hengel , Peter Schäfer , Pieter W. van der Horst , Martin Goodman , Daniël R. Schwartz and Cilliers Breytenbach.

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ISBN

• 9789004332874
• 9004332871

OCLC

• 35269922
• 1427663698

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004332874

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