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Mosshammer has rendered an invaluable service to members of both the scholarly and the faith communities who wish to understand how such events could take place. His book will be a prize possession in every research library. * Kratsu Banev, Journal Of Ecclesiastical History *

Mosshammer has rendered an invaluable service to members of both the scholarly and the faith communities who wish to understand how such events could take place. His book will be a prize possession in every research library. * Kratsu Banev, Journal Of Ecclesiastical History * Mosshammer shows familiarity with all the relevant older and more recent literature and nowhere shrinks away from highly technical and much debated calendrical issues, such as the correspondence between Roman and Egyptian calendars for determining the dates of the vernal equinox. This makes this book and other publications by Mosshammer indispensable tools for every scholar interested in the calculation of the Easter date in early Christianity, more specifically the development of the Alexandrian Easter cycles. * Gerard Rouwhorst, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Vigiliae Christianae *

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Alden Mosshammer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He has also taught at The Mercersburg Academy, Kenyon College, and Swarthmore College. He earned a BA in Classics and Philosophy at Amherst College and a Phd in Classics at Brown University. Professor Mosshammer has taught all periods of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world, as well as courses in Greek, Latin, Early Christianity, and comparative religion. He is especially well known for his work on Chronicles, Chronology, and Computus. His previous publications include The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era (OUP, 2008).

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