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Calendars in antiquity : empires, states, and societies
- Title
- Calendars in antiquity : empires, states, and societies / Sacha Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Sacha.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 457 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. I: From city states to great empires : the rise of the fixed calendars. Calendars of ancient Greece -- The Babylonian calendar -- The Egyptian calendar -- The rise of the fixed calendars : Persian, Ptolemaic, and Julian calendars -- pt. II: The empires challenged and dissolved : calendar diversity and fragmentation. Fragmentation : Babylonion and Julian calendars in the Near East, third century BCE-seventh century CE -- Dissidence and subversion : Gallic, Jewish, and other lunar calendars in the Roman empire -- Sectarianism and heresy : from Qumran calendars to Christian Easter controversies -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-3471
- ISBN
- 9780199589449 (hardback)
- 0199589445 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012009575
- 40021651201
- OCLC
- 781432295
- Author
- Stern, Sacha.
- Title
- Calendars in antiquity : empires, states, and societies / Sacha Stern.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021651201
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-3471