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Front page, table of contents and introductory article to an edited volume of a conference at Yad Vashem in December 2010. Includes an introductory article by the editor: 'Beyond "Righteous Among the Nations" and "Altruism": On Rescuers... more
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      Jewish HistoryReligious ConversionHistory of The NetherlandsHolocaust Studies
En este libro se describe exhaustivamente las reglas y fundamentos del calendario hebreo. Se detallan y demuestran los algoritmos matemáticos, con vistas a su uso con calculadora o para adaptarlos a un programa informático. Para la... more
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      History of the JewsCalendarsHebreoCalendario
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      GnosticismNew TestamentIsrael StudiesHebrew Bible
The zodiology 4QZodiology and Brontology ar (4Q318) 1 has been recognised as a calendar by several scholars. However, its method of functioning has hitherto been relatively unexplored, in contrast to the scholarship on the 364-day... more
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      PhilosophyJosephusDead Sea Scrolls4Q318. A Jewish Zodiac Calendar at Qumran
This paper presents a new, simple method for finding the years in the cycle of the Jewish calendar in which a given Molad Tishrei occurs. Other authors (Pinsky, Chanoch Marzbach, Ajdler, and Wilk) presented methods based on the "month... more
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מצורפים שני קבצים. האחד - המאמר כפי שפורסם ב"חצי גבורים". בקובץ השני ישנו מאמר שבו אני חוזר בי מהפרשנות שבהערה 121, ומבאר את דעת רס"ג בקרבנות המילואים בכלל והרבוכה בפרט לפי מקומות נוספים ב"תפסיר" ולפי מקור חדש בהקדמת רס"ג למגילת אנטיוכוס,... more
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      Oral TraditionsKaraismSaadiah GaonJewish calendars
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      Jewish StudiesJewish HistoryJewish - Christian RelationsJudaism
The Islamic or Hijra calendar is made up of 12 lunar months. Traces of Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach (Passover) and Shavout (Pentacost) are still evident in this calendar. This can be understood by tracing the... more
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      Islamic StudiesIslamJudaismIslamic and Jewish Studies
The author traces the roots of the Islamic Calendar to the Jewish calendar.Beginning in 325 CE, the Sanhedrin’s role as keeper of the calendar wasdisrupted, its role abolished in 358 CE, and office of Nasi (Patriarch) eliminated in 425... more
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      Islamic StudiesIslamJudaismIslamic and Jewish Studies
During the Middle Ages, calendars played a significant role in both the Jewish and Christian communities as a means of reckoning time and structuring religious worship. Although calendars spawned a rich and extensive literature in both... more
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      Medieval HistoryJewish HistoryHistory of AstronomyJewish - Christian Relations
The paper suggests that The Book of Esther contains astronomical and chronological information associated with the reign of Artaxerxes II. It further investigates a play on dates concerning an intercalary 12 th Hebrew month and the eve of... more
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      Ancient HistoryJewish StudiesJewish MysticismDead Sea Scrolls (Religion)
The article focuses on the author's research on the chronographical background of the Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in Synagogue at Hammath-Tiberias. He researched to find the origin of mosaic decoration, the twelve zodiac sign, the four... more
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      ReligionHistoryHistoryAncient History
Eine ausführliche und wissenschaftlichere Studie zum selben Thema ist veröffentlicht in: “Doppelte Datierungen und Datumsangaben mit Wochentag zur Einordnung antiker jüdischer Daten in eine absolute Chronologie: Zugleich ein (negativer)... more
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      CalendarsPassionCrucifixionBiblical Studies Jewish Calendars, DSS, Second Temple Period
This study examined 48 secular, civil, legal documents from different caves in the Dead Sea area from before the time of the First Revolt from about 55 CE, to the last documents of the Second Revolt, in about 135 CE. The research suggests... more
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      Ancient HistoryRoman HistoryJewish StudiesHebrew Language
Abstract Many medieval and early modern Jewish calendars were based on the assumption that the calendar repeats itself exactly after 247 years. Although this cycle – famously referred to as the ʿIggul of R. Naḥshon Gaon – is discussed in... more
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      CalendarsCairo GenizahJewish calendars
‫בכל‬ ‫לענייני‬ ‫עת‬ -‫כתב‬ ‫ומדע‬ ‫תורה‬ ‫דרכיך‬ ‫דעהו‬ 34 ‫תשע"ט‬ ‫טבת‬ ‫העניינים‬ ‫תוכן‬ ‫לבין‬ ‫ומדעיים‬ ‫ריאליים‬ ‫ממצאים‬ ‫בין‬ ‫הנתק‬ ‫איש:‬ ‫חזון‬ ‫שיעורי‬ ‫רדמן:‬ ‫אורי‬ 7 ‫ההלכה‬ ‫הכרעת‬ ‫הבעלות,‬ ‫אפקט‬ ‫שלו...":‬ ‫בקב‬ ‫אדם‬... more
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      Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion)History, Science, Astronomy, Ancient Chronological Systems, CalendarsDead Sea ScrollsAncient astrology
Каспина М.М. КАЛЕНДАРНЫЕ ОБРЯДЫ И ФОЛЬКЛОР В ВОСПОМИНАНИЯХ ЕВРЕЕВ УКРАИНЫ. Данная публикация основана на полевых материалах, которые были записаны в ходе экспедиций в Подолию (города Тульчин, Могилев Подольский) и на Буковину (Черновцы,... more
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      Jewish FolkloreJewish Folklore and Ethnography, Yiddish Folklore, Folk MedicineJewish calendars
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      Celtic MusicJewish calendars
The article focuses on the author's research on the chronographical background of the Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in Synagogue at Hammath-Tiberias. He researched to find the origin of mosaic decoration, the twelve zodiac sign, the four... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyClassical Archaeology
The Mathematical Structure of the 61-Row Table and the Upper Limit of Zvi Hirsch Joffe’s Formula Eran Raviv In the first part of this paper we explain how to build a table for a sequence of n years (when n = 19 we obtain the 61-row table... more
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      Jewish StudiesJewish calendars
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      Ancient HistoryCartographyJewish LawJewish Studies
This article is a case study in the creation, transmission and evolution of calendar tables in medieval and early modern Jewish sources. It looks at calendar tables in Arba̔ah Ṭurim by Jacob ben Asher (early fourteenth century), one of... more
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      Manuscripts and Early Printed BooksHebrew ManuscriptsCalendarsMiddle Ages
SUMMARY This paper studies the question on which (Julian) date falls an ancient dating according to the Jewish calendar. It is only incompletely known how in Biblical times the beginning of the lunar month was reckoned and how the lunar... more
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      New TestamentDead Sea Scrolls (Religion)Jewish HistoryNew Moon Sighting
The Hebrew Calendar, used today the world over, is based on astronomical, religious and cultural considerations. Of those cultural aspects are the 4 Postponements, dealing primarily with the Fall Holydays. This paper will specifically... more
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      PostponementAncient Jewish Calendars and FestivalsJewish calendarsBiblical Calendars
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      MidrashRabbinic LiteratureJewish AstrologyJewish calendars
This article studies Nahshon Gaon’s association with the Jewish calendar. Nahshon ben Zadok Gaon, a ninth-century head of the academy of Sura, is credited with developing a system of calendation known as the Iggul of R. Nahshon, which is... more
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      Jewish HistoryCalendarsGeonic Literaturemedieval Jewish and Christian calendars
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      Jewish StudiesRabbinicsRabbinic LiteratureMedieval Jewish Philosophy
For Jerusalem tables were created, containing epochs of New Moon and first or last visibility of the lunar crescent in the Julian/Gregorian Calendar and the Jewish Calendar according to observation. For better comparison with actual data... more
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      Jewish HistoryChronologyAncient Jewish Calendars and FestivalsJewish calendars
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      Jewish StudiesGerman IdealismHegelFriedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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      Jewish StudiesMedieval HistoryHistory of ScienceJewish History
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      Biblical StudiesJewish - Christian RelationsOld Rus'Jewish Languages
About the painted "mazoles" (zodiac signs) in New York's Stanton Street Shul.
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      Folk artsConservation- restoration mural and canvas paintingJewish Art HistoryArt History, Jewish Art History, Synagogue Art History
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      Jewish calendarsAleph
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      Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion)Qumranic StudiesWalter BenjaminSecond Temple Judaism
The cosmological traditions contained in chapters six to eight of the Pirke deRabbi Eliezer (PRE) fall within the metanarrative structure of the seven days of creation, which broadly governs the exposition in chapters 3-19 of the text.... more
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      MidrashRabbinic LiteratureJewish calendarsGaonic Literature
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      TalmudHistory of AstronomyAstronomyAncient Jewish Calendars and Festivals
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      Medieval HistoryJewish - Christian RelationsMedieval Jewish HistoryCalendars