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- Title
Invention and convention: Jewish and Christian critique of the Jewish fixed calendar.
- Authors
Weinberg, Joanna
- Abstract
The institution of the Jewish fixed calendar has provoked much controversial discussion not only among Jewish, but also Christian scholars. The significant contributions to the subject by two of the great sixteenth-century polymaths, the Jew Azariah de' Rossi and the Christian Sebastian Münster, pinpoint the delicate nature of calendrical investigation. Münster's frequent use of one particular piyyut (a religious poem) to undermine the basis of the Jewish fixed calendar is intended to defend the contradictory calendrical data in the Gospels. De' Rossi implicitly attacks Muenster for his recourse to this unhistorical text. Yet de' Rossi himself is intent on proving that the Jewish fixed calendar is a late post-talmudic convention, an iconoclastic approach which was not welcome in certain rabbinic circles.
- Subjects
JEWISH calendar; JEWISH chronology
- Publication
Jewish History, 2000, Vol 14, Issue 3, p317
- ISSN
0334-701X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1007196823678