Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198270348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject.It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from considerable diversity (with a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity (with the normative rabbinic calendar). The unification of the calendar was one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the earlymedieval world.
Calendar and Community
Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198270348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject.It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from considerable diversity (with a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity (with the normative rabbinic calendar). The unification of the calendar was one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the earlymedieval world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198270348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject.It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from considerable diversity (with a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity (with the normative rabbinic calendar). The unification of the calendar was one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the earlymedieval world.
A Community History Calendar
Author: LaGuardia Community College
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Category : Labor
Languages : de
Pages : 26
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Category : Labor
Languages : de
Pages : 26
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From Islands to Highlands ... Community History Calendar
Author: Chestatee Regional Library
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Languages : en
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A Community History Calendar in Four Languages
Author: New York (N.Y.). LaGuardia Community College
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Languages : en
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Children of the Days
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1568589719
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. Challenging readers to consider the human condition and our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten. Readers will discover many inspiring narratives in this collection of vignettes: the Brazilians who held a "smooch-in" to protest against a dictatorship for banning kisses that "undermined public morals;" the astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States; and the "sacrilegious" women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in the Galician city of A Coruna in 1901. Galeano also highlights individuals such as Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, the first bishop of Brazil, who was eaten by Caete Indians off the coast of Alagoas, as well as Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia, who kept books safe from war by creating a walking library of 117,000 tomes aboard four hundred camels, forming a mile-long caravan. Beautifully translated by Galeano's longtime collaborator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a majestic humanist treasure that shows us how to live and how to remember. It awakens the best in us.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1568589719
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. Challenging readers to consider the human condition and our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten. Readers will discover many inspiring narratives in this collection of vignettes: the Brazilians who held a "smooch-in" to protest against a dictatorship for banning kisses that "undermined public morals;" the astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States; and the "sacrilegious" women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in the Galician city of A Coruna in 1901. Galeano also highlights individuals such as Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, the first bishop of Brazil, who was eaten by Caete Indians off the coast of Alagoas, as well as Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia, who kept books safe from war by creating a walking library of 117,000 tomes aboard four hundred camels, forming a mile-long caravan. Beautifully translated by Galeano's longtime collaborator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a majestic humanist treasure that shows us how to live and how to remember. It awakens the best in us.
Working People
Author: LaGuardia Community College
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Category : Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Category : Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The Dance of Time
Author: Michael Judge
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611455111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Three streams of history created the Western calendar - from the East beginning with the Sumerians, from the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the North, and again from the East, this time from Palestine with the rise of Christianity. The author teases out the contributions of each stream.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611455111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Three streams of history created the Western calendar - from the East beginning with the Sumerians, from the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the North, and again from the East, this time from Palestine with the rise of Christianity. The author teases out the contributions of each stream.
A People's History Calendar of East St. Paul
Author: Gary Brueggemann
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Category : East Saint Paul (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : East Saint Paul (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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"The Many Petaled Character"
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Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Southern Perry County Community History Calendar
Author: Larry Lanning
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Category : Perry County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Category : Perry County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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