"The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy.…
"In this book, Peter Stearns presents the fascinating concept of time through a global historical lens. Covering both calendrical time and clock time, the volume shows how significant changes in conceptions of time are in world history, as they translate many key historical deve…
Introduction -- Rethinking time: Zapotec and Nahua cycles after the conquest -- Northern Zapotec writing, literacy, and society -- The shapes of the universe: theories of time and space -- Deities, sacred beings, and their feasts -- Singing the ancestors back to Earth -- Confron…
"From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western timekeeping, and with it a peri…
"This book takes as its theme the related issues of calendar, chronology and workship, as they were conceived and practiced in ancient Jewish and early Christian times." "After a general discussion of the way the three issues are related, there follow six chapters on the calenda…
Rekonstruktion und relative Chronologie: Akten der VIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen G…
by Lubotsky, Alexander, Beekes, Robert Stephen Paul, Weitenberg, Jos, Indogermanische Gesellschaft., Fachtagung, Berlin), Fachtagung für indogermanische und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Leiden)
fromInnsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft
Introduction: Calculating Time: Eosturmonath, Nisan, and the Paschal Table -- Just In Time: Sacrificial Gifts, Rotting Corpses, and Annus Domini -- An (Un)Common Era: Passionate Narratives, Temporal Clashes-Jewish and Christian -- Taking Jews out and Putting Them Back in: Christ…
