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
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THE PERPETUAL CALENDAR OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 93 |
THE COURSES OF THE LEVITES | 141 |
THE PREHISTORY OF THE THREE GREAT SCHOOLS | 174 |
THE TRUE TRADITIONALISTS | 182 |
1 | 217 |
THE MISUSE | 276 |
THE PASSOVER AND THE EQUINOX | 282 |
RECONCILING THE PASSIONWEEK CHRONOLOGY | 289 |
THE THREEANDAHALF TIMES | 303 |
INDEXES | 310 |
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11Q Psª 70 Weeks Adar Antiquities Aramaic Astronomical Book baraita beginning biblical Book of Jubilees Books of Enoch 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 Gospel Greek Hellenistic Hellenizing high priest holy days intercalation interpretation Israel Jehoiarib Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Christians Jews John Josephus Josephus's Judaism later Levites literature Lord Lord's Day Luke lunar month Maccabaeus 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 Seder Olam Rabbah Septuagint seventh simply solar Sunday synagogue Temple Testament of Levi thirteenth month Tishri verse worship year-weeks
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Page 19 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 300 - And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole 'world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
Page 141 - Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is, the round world and they that dwell therein.
Page 20 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 16 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
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Page 137 - And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land.
Page 141 - SING we merrily unto GOD, our strength; make a cheerful noise unto the GOD of Jacob. 2 Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, the merry harp, with the lute. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, even in the time appointed, and upon our solemn feast-day.