TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobus,Helen R.
TI  - Zodiac calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and their reception: ancient astronomy and astrology in early Judaism 
T2  - IJS studies in Judaica
SN  - 9789004284067
AV  - CE35 .J315 2015
U1  - 529/.326 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - fast
KW  - Jewish calendar
KW  - Jewish astronomy
N1  - Conference proceedings of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London; Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-526) and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Towards A New Interpretation of 4QZodiac Calendar -- 2 4QBrontologion: Transmission, Origins and Significance -- 3 The Aramaic Astronomical Book of Enoch Reconsidered in the Light of 4Q318 -- 4 The ‘Enoch Zodiac’ and Greco-Roman Zodiac Sundials -- 5 Zodiac Calendars in Hellenistic Texts and Artefacts -- 6 A Late Medieval Astrological Hebrew Text -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The ancient mathematical basis of the Aramaic calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls is analysed in this investigation. Helen R. Jacobus re-examines an Aramaic zodiac calendar with a thunder divination text (4Q318) and the calendar from the Aramaic Astronomical Book (4Q208 - 4Q209), all from Qumran. Jacobus demonstrates that 4Q318 is an ancestor of the Jewish calendar today and that it helps us to understand 4Q208 - 4Q209. She argues that these calendars were taught in antiquity as angelic knowledge described in 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees . The study also encompasses Babylonian, Hellenistic, Byzantine astronomy and astrology, and classical and Jewish writings. Finally, a medieval Hebrew zodiac calendar related to 4Q318 with an astrological text is published here for the first time
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004284067
ER  -