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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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Author:   C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.202kg
ISBN:  

9789004272446

ISBN 10:   9004272445
Pages:   690
Publication Date:   23 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents PREFACE LIST OF PLATES ABBREVIATIONS SIGNS USED IN THE CRITICAL APPARATUS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: CONTEXTS AND PRETEXTS 1. The Jewish calendar: history and structure 2. The Easter computus and the challenge of calendar reform 3. The Christian encounter with the Jewish calendar: antiquity to twelfth century CHAPTER TWO: THE ANONYMOUS LIBER ERARUM 1. Structure and contents 2. Origin and date 3. The manuscripts 4. The edition LIBER ERARUM THE BOOK OF ERAS CHAPTER THREE: ROBERT OF LEICESTER'S TREATISE ON THE HEBREW CALENDAR (1294) 1. Franciscan Hebraism and the challenge of biblical chronology 2. Manuscripts, date, and authorship 3. Structure and contents 4. The edition ROBERTUS DE LEYCESTRIA: TRACTATUS DE COMPOTO HEBREORUM APTATO AD KALENDARIUM ROBERT OF LEICESTER: TREATISE ON THE COMPUTUS OF THE HEBREWS AND ITS ADAPTATION TO OUR CALENDAR CHAPTER FOUR: NICHOLAS TREVET'S COMPOTUS HEBREORUM (1310) 1. Introduction 2. Context, contents, and sources 3. The edition NICOLAUS TREVET: COMPOTUS HEBREORUM NICHOLAS TREVET: ON THE COMPUTUS OF THE HEBREWS CHAPTER FIVE: THE COMPUTUS IUDAICUS OF 1342 1. Introduction 2. The manuscripts 3. Structure and contents 4. Context and transmission 5. Transliteration of Hebrew terms 6. The tables 7. Major textual changes 8. The commentaries 9. Authorship and date 10. The users 11. The edition COMPUTUS JUDAICUS ON THE JEWISH COMPUTUS COMMENTARIUS IN COMPUTUM JUDAICUM COMMENTARY ON THE 'JEWISH COMPUTUS' CHAPTER SIX: HERMANN ZOEST'S CALENDARIUM HEBRAICUM NOVUM (1436) 1. The Jewish calendar in the work of Hermann Zoest 2. Calendarium Hebraicum novum: structure and contents 3. The manuscripts 4. The edition HERMANNUS ZOESTIUS: CALENDARIUM HEBRAICUM NOVUM HERMANN ZOEST: A NEW HEBREW CALENDAR 5. Chronological commentary on Hermann's Calendarium APPENDIX I: JOHN OF PULCHRO RIVO ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR APPENDIX II: NOTES ON FURTHER TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS BIBLIOGRAPHY

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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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