Isbn: 9789004272446 - medieval latin christian texts on the jewish calendar: a study with five editions and translations: 4 (time, astronomy, and calendars, 4) (7 resultados)

First edition. Octavo. ix, (3), 690pp. Indices and 69 page bibliography. Red/brown over gray boards, spine lettered in yellow. A fine, as new copy. Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar opens up a previously unknown chapter in the history of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange during the Middle Ages by presenting critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar. (OCLC) In the sixteenth century Simon Munster put together a 200 page volume entitled "Kalendarium Hebraicum" which had been "newly brought to light from the inner sanctuaries of the Hebrews." To these, he attached a whole series of texts dealing with the complicated rules of the Jewish calendar, its astronomical foundations, and its feast-day cycles. (from the Introduction) Contents: Preface; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Note; Signs Used in the Critical Apparatus; Introduction; Chapter 1. Contexts and Pretexts; 1. The Jewish Calendar: History and Structure; 2. The Easter Computus and the Challenge of Calendar Reform; 3. The Christian Encounter with the Jewish Calendar: Antiquity to Twelfth Century; Chapter 2. The Anonymous Liber erarum; 1. Structure and Contents; 2. Origin and Date; 3. The Manuscripts; 4. The Edition; Liber erarum; Chapter 3. Robert of Leicester's Treatise on the Hebrew Calendar (1294); 1. Franciscan Hebraism and the Challenge of Biblical Chronology2. Manuscripts, Date, and Authorship; 3. Structure and Contents; 4. The Edition; Robertus de Leycestria: Tractatus de compoto Hebreorum aptato ad kalendarium; Chapter 4. Nicholas Trevet's Compotus Hebreorum (1310); 1. Introduction; 2. Context, Contents, and Sources; 3. The Edition; Nicolaus Trevet: Compotus Hebreorum; Chapter 5. The Computus Iudaicus of 1342; 1. Introduction; 2. The Manuscripts; 3. Structure and Contents; 4. Context and Transmission; 5. Transliteration of Hebrew Terms; 6. The Tables; 7. Major Textual Changes.; 8. The Commentaries9. Authorship and Date; 10. The Users; 11. The Edition; Computus Judaicus; Commentarius in Computum Judaicum; Chapter 6. Hermann Zoest's Calendarium Hebraicum Novum (1436); 1. The Jewish Calendar in the Work of Hermann Zoest; 2. Calendarium Hebraicum Novum: Structure and Contents; 3. The Manuscripts; 4. The Edition; Hermannus Zoestius: Calendarium Hebraicum Novum; 5. Chronological Commentary on Hermann's Calendarium; Appendix I. John of Pulchro Rivo on the Jewish Calendar; Appendix II. Notes on Further Texts and Manuscripts; Plates; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts. (OCLC) Volume 4 of the Brill series: "Time, Astronomy, and Calendars" (TAC).…

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Hardback. Condición: New. Illustrated. During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.…

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Hardback. Condición: New. Illustrated. During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.…

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