The Genesis calendar : the synchronistic tradition in Genesis 1-11 /
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Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2001] |
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication
- List of Tables and Figures
- Genesis 5 and 11: Primeval History Numerical Genealogies
- Foreword
- Preface, and Apologia
- Acknowledgments
- The Genesis Calendar
- Chapter 1. Six related problems in the Hebrew calendar
- 1.1. Preliminary: three general principles of approach
- 1.2. Brief outline of 6 Hebrew calendar problems
- 1.2.1. Problem 1: understanding Hebrew lunar evidence
- 1.2.2. Problem 2: the Hebrew calendar's contexts
- 1.2.3. Problem 3: the Mishnah's out-of-step calendrics
- 1.2.4. Problem 4: 364-day calendars and intercalation
- 1.2.5. Problem 5: the 'Key of Enoch' and PH calendrics
- 1.2.6. Problem 6: pre-history of Qumran's synchronism
- 1.2.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Problem 1: understanding calendar evidence
- 2.1. Dealing with an unfamiliar calendar
- 2.2. Scientific charts in a socio-religious world
- 2.3. Lunar-based calendars: an unfamiliar method
- 2.3.1. A pure lunar calendar and its characteristics
- 2.3.2. The Jewish luni-solar calendar
- 2.4. An unfamiliar mindset
- Chapter 3. Problem 2: dealing with unfamiliar calendars
- 3.1. An unfamiliar mindset: historical
- 3.2. Paucity of description, not clues, in biblical calendrics
- 3.2.1. Lights
- 3.2.2. Divisions of day
- 3.2.3. Signs
- 3.2.4. The Day
- 3.2.5. Equinoxes
- 3.2.6. Ergonomic, schematic and closed calendars
- 3.2.6.1. Ergonomic calendars
- 3.2.6.2. The Gezer calendar
- 3.2.6.3. The Week
- 3.2.6.4. The schematic 30-day civil calendar of Egypt
- 3.3. Perceiving intelligible biblical evidence
- Chapter 4. Problem 3: Was the Mishnah out of step?
- 4.1. Ad hoc and mathematical intercalation
- 4.2. The luni-solar tradition of the Mishnah
- 4.2.1. Sightings, the solar year and lunar visibility
- 4.3. From Babylonian to Hellenistic science
- 4.4. The Egyptian 25-year Cycle
- 4.5. Reasons why Jews preferred observational method
- Chapter 5. Problem 4: To intercalate a 364-day calendar
- 5.1. The historic relationship of the calendar to Judaism
- 5.2. Morgenstern and Jaubert's pre-1960 debate
- 5.3. Post-1960: VanderKam, Davies and solar origins
- 5.4. Error A: judging viability by theological versions
- 5.5. Error B: assuming 364 days is the scheme's limit
- Chapter 6. Problem 5: Key of Enoch and Genesis 1-11
- 6.1. Calendrics in the Primeval History's construction
- 6.2. The Key of Enoch and applied validation principles
- 6.3. PH numerical genealogies: Gen 5:1-32; 11:10-26
- 6.4. Test application of the Key of Enoch
- 6.4.1. The Key of Enoch and the lock of Gen 11:10-26
- 6.4.1.1. A general overview of Gen 11:1-32
- 6.4.1.2. Excursus: what is 'The Flood' of Gen 11:10?
- 6.4.1.3. The analysis of Gen 11:10 and the implications
- 6.4.2. Babel's solution to problematic exilic assimilation
- 6.4.3. Serious calendrics and speculative chronology
- 6.4.4. Two brief redactional aspects
- 6.4.5. Analysis of the numerical genealogy of 11:10-26
- 6.4.5.1. Calendrical aspects: Gen 11:10-26
- 6.4.5.2. Patterns in MTGen 11:10-26: a covert calendar
- 6.5. Technicalities of the Genesis 11 calendar (GXISC)
- 6.5.1. The solar aspect
- 6.5.2. The lunar aspect
- 6.5.3. Objection: Did the GXISC use 30-day months?
- 6.5.4. Dating the Genesis 11 synchronistic calendar
- 6.5.4.1. Did the Hebrew solar year exceed 365 days?
- 6.6. Final aspects: options for intercalation and seasons
- 6.6.1. Intercalation of 354/365-day years and mishmarot
- 6.6.2. Seasons in the GXISC, and a possible pre-history
- Chapter 7. Problem 6: Pre-history to Qumran calendars
- 7.1. The Mishmarot
- 7.2. Query: did the GXISC have a sidereal year-value?
- 7.3. Q319 'Otot, the GXISC, and a cycle of jubilees
- 7.4. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index