Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition

Sacha Stern is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at University College London. He is the author of Calendar and Community (Oxford 2001), Time and Process in Ancient Judaism(Oxford 2003), and Calendars in Antiquity(Oxford 2012), and Principal Investigator of various research projects on ancient and medieval calendars. Charles Burnett is Professor of the History of Islamic Influence in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London. Among his books are The introduction of Arabic Learning into England (London, 1997), Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages (Farnham 2009), and several editions of Arabic texts with their Latin translations.

• PrefaceA Jewish Parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman EgyptJonathan Ben-DovObserving the Moon: Astronomical and Cosmological Aspects in the Rabbinic New Moon ProcedureReimund LeichtCosmology as Science or Cosmology as Theology? Reflections on the Astronomical Chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer Katharina KeimSome Early Islamic and Christian Sources Regarding the Jewish Calendar (9th-11th centuries) François de BloisThe Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921–22:Reconstructing the Manuscripts and their Transmission History Marina Rustow and Sacha SternThe Hebrew Calendrical Bookshelf of the Early Twelfth Century: The Cases of Abraham bar Ḥiyya and Jacob bar Samson Ilana WartenbergScribal Prerogative in Modifying Calendrical Tables Israel M. SandmanAstronomical Tables of Abraham bar Ḥiyya Raymond MercierThe Sabbath Epistle by Abraham Ibn Ezra: its Purpose and Novelty Anne C. Kinneret SittigMedieval Jews and Medieval Astrolabes: Where, Why, How, and What For?Josefina Rodríguez ArribasSome Hygiene and Dietary Calendars in Hebrew Manuscripts from Medieval Ashkenaz Justine IsserlesMe pudet audire Iudeum talia scire: A Late Medieval Latin School Text on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft

"Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition is a complex, multifaceted, forward-looking work, taking advantage of new findings and a wealth of international, interdisciplinary scholarship and resulting in a volume of real scholarly value." – Marie Ventura, University of St. Andrews