Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Measuring Time (The Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls)

Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about the different uses of time-measurement in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. He argues that the scrolls indicate that a dispute about the correct calendar for dating festivals was one of the principal reasons for the separation of the authors of the scrolls from Jewish society. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 3 COPYRIGHT......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 5 SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 8 PART I INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL AND POST-BIBLICAL CALENDARS......Page 9 1. THE HEBREW BIBLE......Page 10 2. SOURCES LATER THAN THE HEBREW BIBLE......Page 20 3. RABBINIC LITERATURE......Page 34 PART II THE CALENDARS IN THE QUMRAN TEXTS......Page 39 4. THE FIRST CALENDRICAL HINTS......Page 40 5. A HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP ON THE QUMRAN CALENDARS......Page 47 6. THE CALENDRICAL TEXTS......Page 61 7. MEASURING AND SYMBOLIZING LONGER UNITS OF TIME......Page 76 8. CONCLUSIONS......Page 90 NOTES......Page 95 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 101 INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 106 INDEX OF REFERENCES TO BIBLICAL AND OTHER ANCIENT LITERATURE......Page 110 1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls provides a valuable addition to the Dead Sea Scrolls Series and contributes to the elucidation of the scroll texts themselves and their relation to other Biblical texts. VanderKam explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible & other ancient Jewish texts. He examines the pertinent texts, their sources & the uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world The Hebrew Bible, the earliest surviving collection of Israelite-Jewish writings, includes no document that could be called a calendar as we think of calendars today.