Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel by David Miano

By David Miano

How did the traditional Israelites view and degree time? The Hebrew Bible, the executive resource of data for Israelite time-reckoning in the course of the monarchic interval (ca. one thousand 586 B.C.E.), comprises chronological info from many various assets. This fabric has formerly been handled as though it have been derived from a unmarried resource and mirrored yet one procedure of time dimension. Shadow at the Steps considers some of the resources and assesses every one by itself phrases. The path-breaking method during this quantity brings jointly fabric on biblical calendars and at the chronology of the kings and systematically makes use of one (calendars) to notify the opposite (chronology), laying the basis either for a more in-depth inspection of biblical ways to heritage and for a foray into historic chronography as a rule.

Show description

Read Online or Download Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel PDF

Best sacred writings books

Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel

How did the traditional Israelites view and degree time? The Hebrew Bible, the executive resource of knowledge for Israelite time-reckoning throughout the monarchic interval (ca. one thousand 586 B. C. E. ), comprises chronological facts from many alternative resources. This fabric has formerly been taken care of as though it have been derived from a unmarried resource and mirrored yet one process of time dimension.

Buddhist Sutras: Origin, Development, Transmission

This booklet deals an engrossing account either one of the starting place and improvement of the sutras and of the clergymen who braved perilous trips and mastered unexpected languages with a purpose to hold the sutras to new lands.

Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah

Introduces a fashion of examining and studying biblical literature

Passing Through the Gateless Barrier: Kōan Practice for Real Life

The vintage thirteenth-century number of Zen koans with the most obtainable commentaries up to now, from a chinese language Zen instructor. Gateways to awakening encompass us at each second of our lives. the full objective of kōan (gong’an, in chinese language) perform is to maintain us from lacking those myriad possibilities via prime us to yes gates that experience regularly been powerful for individuals to entry that remarkable awakening.

Additional resources for Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel

Example text

The Deuteronomic law specifies the month, but not the day, of the Passover. It does, however, say the sacrifice should be made in the evening (Deut 16:4). On the other hand, perhaps the message in Joshua is that the tradition for celebrating the Passover on the 14th is to be traced to this occasion; it was the day the Israelites celebrated it after entering the Promised Land. 1. CALENDARS 11 afternoon. Those who would argue for a day beginning in the evening would have to assume that, since the following morning and afternoon are still part of the same day on which the meal was eaten, then the gathering of the produce from the land did not occur until at least 24 hours from the evening that the Passover was celebrated, but probably even later, since the gathering would not have been done in the dark, but would have been delayed until daylight.

It does, however, say the sacrifice should be made in the evening (Deut 16:4). On the other hand, perhaps the message in Joshua is that the tradition for celebrating the Passover on the 14th is to be traced to this occasion; it was the day the Israelites celebrated it after entering the Promised Land. 1. CALENDARS 11 afternoon. Those who would argue for a day beginning in the evening would have to assume that, since the following morning and afternoon are still part of the same day on which the meal was eaten, then the gathering of the produce from the land did not occur until at least 24 hours from the evening that the Passover was celebrated, but probably even later, since the gathering would not have been done in the dark, but would have been delayed until daylight.

C. Propp. sured the movement of the sun throughout the entire day, we must presume there are ten steps on the other side as well. The stairway would have been running east–west. Each step would represent a division of time. Ten steps on one side for the first half of the day (shadow moving down), and ten on the other for the second half of the day (shadow moving up), indicate twenty units total. Keep in mind that this would be for daylight time only. 28 A division of the daytime into twenty units is unattested in the sources of any other ancient culture.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.44 of 5 – based on 17 votes