Calendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:512
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Sacha Stern
ISBN:9789004100121
Jewish identity is not only a question of legal status, it is about the experience of being Jewish or of "Jewishness" in all its social and cultural dimensions. This work describes this experience as it emerges in Talmudic and Midrashic sources.;Besides the question: "who is a Jew?"...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:269
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Sacha Stern
ISBN:9789004206489
Several Jewish groups from Antiquity until today have been traditionally identified as sects or as sectarian, most famously the Qumran community and the Qaraites...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:310
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Sacha Stern
ISBN:9781904113683
This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the complete range of Jewish sources from this period: mainly early rabbinic literature...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Sacha Stern
ISBN:9781874774952
Stern (Jewish studies, U. of London) searched all the ancient Jewish sources, looking for indications that time was linear or cyclical or both...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:152