Research Catalog

Title

Calendar and chronology, Jewish and Christian : biblical, intertestamental and patristic studies / by Roger T. Beckwith.

Author

Beckwith, Roger T.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

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Description

xv, 333 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• This book deals with various challenging problems in Jewish and early Christian thought and practice, within the general areas of the calendar and chronology. New problems are tackled, and old problems are reconsidered.
• The new problems are intertestamental, and include the Qumran calendar, the stages in the development of Judaism between the Testaments, and the various chronologies used in early Judaism to measure past and future time. These chapters are mainly of Jewish interest, though the last-mentioned has a Christian bearing also, centering as it does on messianic expectation.
• The old problems all have a Christian bearing, and are biblical or patristic, though illustrated here by intertestamental evidence. They include the relationship between the Sabbath and Sunday, the date of the crucifixion, the origin of Easter and Whitsun, and the date of Christmas.

Series Statement

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 0169-734X ; Bd. 33

Uniform Title

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Bd. 33.

Subject

• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dead Sea scrolls > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Time in the Bible
• Time > Biblical teaching
• Jewish calendar
• Jewish chronology
• Church year > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. The Day: Its Divisions and Its Limits in Biblical Times -- 2. The Sabbath and Sunday -- 3. Easter and Whitsun: The Origin of the Church's Earliest Annual Festivals -- 4. The Date of Christmas and the Courses of the Priests -- 5. The Perpetual Calendar of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 6. The Qumran Psalter: The Courses of the Levites and the Use of the Psalms at Qumran -- 7. Judaism Between the Testaments: The Stages of its Religious Development -- 8. The Year of the Messiah: Jewish and Early Christian Chronologies, and Their Eschatological Consequences -- 9. The Date of the Crucifixion: The Misuse of Calendars and Astronomy to Determine the Chronology of the Passion -- 10. A Time, Times and Half a Time: The Revelation of the Prophet John and the Three-and-a-Half Times.

ISBN

9004105867 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96033630

OCLC

ocm35269922

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries