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Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar
A Study with Five Editions and Translations
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C. Philipp E. Nothaft
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.
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C. Philipp E. Nothaft is a research fellow at The Warburg Institute, London. He has published widely on the history of time, astronomy, and calendars from late antiquity to the early modern period, including the monograph Dating the Passion (Brill, 2012).
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eBook published on:
May 22, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9789004274129
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Main content:
690
eBook ISBN:
9789004274129
Audience(s) for this book
Historians of science, medievalists, Hebraists, scholars of medieval Jewish-Christian relations, and all those interested in chronology, computistics, and calendars.
