Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical, Intertestamental and Patristic StudiesThis 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, centring 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. This publication has also been published in hardback (no longer available). |
Contents
ITS DIVISIONS AND ITS LIMITS IN BIBLICAL TIMES | 1 |
THE SABBATH AND SUNDAY | 10 |
THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCHS | 51 |
THE DATE OF CHRISTMAS AND THE COURSES OF THE PRIESTS | 71 |
THE PERPETUAL CALENDAR OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 93 |
THE COURSES OF THE LEVITES | 141 |
THE COURSES OF THE LEVITICAL SINGERS | 150 |
THE CONTENTS OF 11Q Ps | 157 |
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70 Weeks Adar Antiquities Aramaic Astronomical Book baraita beginning biblical Book of Jubilees Books of Enoch century B.C. chapter Christ Chron chronology church commenced Saturday creation cycle Damascus Document Daniel decade of jubilees Deut Easter equinox Essene calendar Essenes evidence Exile Exod Ezra fact feast festival Gentile Greek Hellenistic Hellenizing high priest holy days intercalation interpretation Israel Jehoiarib Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Christians Jews John Josephus Judaism later Levites literature Lord Lord's Day Luke lunar month Macc manuscripts Messiah Milik Mishnah moon Nisan 14 observed Old Testament Onias Palestine Palestinian Passover Pentecost period Pharisees priesthood priestly courses probably prophecy prophets proto-Essene psalms Quartodeciman Qumran rabbinical reason reckoned Sabbath Sabbath rest sacrifices Sadducean Sadducees Samaritan Sanhedrin says Scroll second century Seder Olam Rabbah Septuagint seventh simply solar Sunday synagogue Temple Testament of Levi thirteenth month Tishri verse worship year-weeks