Calendar tables in manuscript and printed Arba'ah Ṭurim: Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim, chapter 428
This article is a case study in the creation, transmission and evolution of calendar tables in medieval and early modern Jewish sources. It looks at calendar tables in Arba'ah Ṭurim: by Jacob ben Asher (early fourteenth century), one of the most influential rabbiniccodes of law. Calendar tables...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-85 |
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Jewish literature
B Rabbinical literature B FOUR species (Sukkot) B JEWISH fasts & feasts B Manuscripts |
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| Summary: | This article is a case study in the creation, transmission and evolution of calendar tables in medieval and early modern Jewish sources. It looks at calendar tables in Arba'ah Ṭurim: by Jacob ben Asher (early fourteenth century), one of the most influential rabbiniccodes of law. Calendar tables in printed editions of Arba'ah Ṭurim: (Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim, chapter 428) deviate from the normative rabbinic calendar and can lead to celebrating religiousholidays at the wrong times. The inclusion of non-standard tables in an authoritative codeof law has long raised questions about their authenticity. This article examines the history ofcalendar tables in Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim by investigating all extant manuscripts and fifteenth-to-sixteenth-century printed editions of the code. The article highlights the unstable connectionof calendar tables with authorial compositions and the lack of calendar expertise amongcopyists and users of calendar tables. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-6689 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18647/3351/jjs-2018 |