The Aramaic Astronomical Book From Qumran

Author : Henryk Drawnel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199590435
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aramaic Astronomical Book from Qumran written by Henryk Drawnel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of the four Aramaic manuscripts from Qumran (4Q208-4Q211) that comprise the Aramaic Astronomical Book, part of the Jewish pseudepigraphic literature of the Second Temple period. It describes the movement of the moon in its phases, schematic meteorology, and the movement of the stars in relation to the seasons of the year.

Author : Jonathan Ben-Dov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047424190
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Head of All Years written by Jonathan Ben-Dov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a wide array of sources from ancient Mesopotamia to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the present volume offers an innovative perspective on Jewish apocalyptic time-reckoning during the Second Temple period, based on a unique calendar year of 364 days.

Author : Helen R. Jacobus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284060
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception written by Helen R. Jacobus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient mathematical basis of the Aramaic calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls is analysed in this investigation. Helen R. Jacobus re-examines an Aramaic zodiac calendar with a thunder divination text (4Q318) and the calendar from the Aramaic Astronomical Book (4Q208 - 4Q209), all from Qumran. Jacobus demonstrates that 4Q318 is an ancestor of the Jewish calendar today and that it helps us to understand 4Q208 - 4Q209. She argues that these calendars were taught in antiquity as angelic knowledge described in 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. The study also encompasses Babylonian, Hellenistic, Byzantine astronomy and astrology, and classical and Jewish writings. Finally, a medieval Hebrew zodiac calendar related to 4Q318 with an astrological text is published here for the first time.

Author : Alan C. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400567
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellenistic Astronomy written by Alan C. Bowen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.

Author : Katell Berthelot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194320
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aramaica Qumranica written by Katell Berthelot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this book tackle important linguistic, exegetical and historical questions concerning the Aramaic scrolls from Qumran, addressing for instance the issue of their relevance to the development of apocalypticism and messianism in the Jewish tradition.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004696717
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains studies that explore the content and meaning of the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch, the Book of Giants, and related literature. The essays shed new light on the lexicon, orthography and grammar of the Aramaic scrolls, as well as their relationship to schematic astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia. Contributors examine the origin of the angelic tradition of the Watchers, the textual and literary relationship of the Aramaic scrolls to the Book of the Watchers, and the culpability of humanity in the spread of evil on earth according to the myth of the fallen angels.

Author : Henryk Drawnel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198799917
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qumran Cave 4 written by Henryk Drawnel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains seven Aramaic manuscripts of a Jewish pseudepigraphic tradition from the Second Temple period that ascribes to Enoch, the biblical antediluvian patriarch, a series of heavenly revelations and visions. 4Q201, 4Q202, 4Q204, 4Q205, 4Q206, 4Q207, and 4Q212 published here partially overlap with the Book of the Watchers, the Book of Dreams, and Letter of Enoch and constitute the earliest textual witness to these pseudepigrapha. The fragmentary Aramaic text is accompanied by a paleographic description, grammatical and textual notes, reconstructions, and synoptic comparison with versional evidence. The Aramaic, Aramaic-Greek, and Greek-Aramaic concordances are based on the Aramaic text collated anew for the present edition. The book also comprises an edition of two Greek excerpts, together with a Latin and Syriac fragment of 1 Enoch.

Author : James C. VanderKam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134709633
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls written by James C. VanderKam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts.

Author : Jonas C. Greenfield
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405072
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aramaic Levi Document written by Jonas C. Greenfield and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary.

Author : Carmen Palmer
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884144364
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat written by Carmen Palmer and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of the people and movements associated with Qumran, their outlook on the world, and what bound them together Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat examines the identity of the Qumran movement by reassessing former conclusions and bringing new methodologies to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The collection as a whole addresses questions of identity as they relate to law, language, and literary formation; considerations of time and space; and demarcations of the body. The thirteen essays in this volume reassess the categorization of rule texts, the reuse of scripture, the significance of angelic fellowship, the varieties of calendrical use, and celibacy within the Qumran movement. Contributors consider identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls from new interdisciplinary perspectives, including spatial theory, legal theory, historical linguistics, ethnicity theory, cognitive literary theory, monster theory, and masculinity theory. Features Essays that draw on new theoretical frameworks and recent advances in Qumran studies A tribute to the late Peter Flint, whose scholarship helped to shape Qumran studies