A primitive rabbinic calendar text from the Cairo Genizah

A hitherto unnoticed fragment from the Cairo Genizah, T-S K2.27, describes two methods for calculating the calendar that ignore the molad and differ in further ways from the later, fixed rabbinic calendar. These "primitive" rabbinic calendars, which I would date to the eighth century at th...

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Main Author: Stern, Sacha 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Liverpool University Press [2016]
In: The journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-90
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
TF Early Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Cairo Genizah
B Hebrew Manuscripts
B Rabbinic Judaism
B Eighth century
B Middle Ages
B Chronology
B Jewish calendar
Online Access: Volltext (doi)