The Genesis calendar : the synchronistic tradition in Genesis 1-11 /

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Author / Creator: Gardner, Bruce K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2001]
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Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
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