{"product_id":"medieval-latin-christian-texts-on-the-jewish-calendar-a-study-with-five-editions-and-translations-9789004272446","title":"Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar: A Study with Five Editions and Translations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents PREFACE\t LIST OF PLATES\t ABBREVIATIONS SIGNS USED IN THE CRITICAL APPARATUS\t INTRODUCTION\t CHAPTER ONE: CONTEXTS AND PRETEXTS\t 1.\tThe Jewish calendar: history and structure 2.\tThe Easter computus and the challenge of calendar reform\t 3.\tThe Christian encounter with the Jewish calendar: antiquity to twelfth century CHAPTER TWO: THE ANONYMOUS LIBER ERARUM\t 1.\tStructure and contents\t 2.\tOrigin and date\t 3.\tThe manuscripts\t 4.\tThe edition\t LIBER ERARUM\t THE BOOK OF ERAS CHAPTER THREE: ROBERT OF LEICESTER’S TREATISE ON THE HEBREW CALENDAR (1294)\t 1.\tFranciscan Hebraism and the challenge of biblical chronology\t 2.\tManuscripts, date, and authorship\t 3.\tStructure and contents\t 4.\tThe edition\t ROBERTUS DE LEYCESTRIA: TRACTATUS DE COMPOTO HEBREORUM APTATO AD KALENDARIUM\t ROBERT OF LEICESTER: TREATISE ON THE COMPUTUS OF THE HEBREWS AND ITS ADAPTATION TO OUR CALENDAR\t CHAPTER FOUR: NICHOLAS TREVET’S COMPOTUS HEBREORUM (1310)\t 1.\tIntroduction\t 2.\tContext, contents, and sources\t 3.\tThe edition\t NICOLAUS TREVET: COMPOTUS HEBREORUM\t NICHOLAS TREVET: ON THE COMPUTUS OF THE HEBREWS\t CHAPTER FIVE: THE COMPUTUS IUDAICUS OF 1342\t 1.\tIntroduction\t 2.\tThe manuscripts\t 3.\tStructure and contents 4.\tContext and transmission\t 5.\tTransliteration of Hebrew terms\t 6.\tThe tables\t 7.\tMajor textual changes\t 8.\tThe commentaries\t 9.\tAuthorship and date\t 10.\tThe users\t 11.\tThe edition\t COMPUTUS JUDAICUS\t ON THE JEWISH COMPUTUS\t COMMENTARIUS IN COMPUTUM JUDAICUM\t COMMENTARY ON THE ‘JEWISH COMPUTUS’\t CHAPTER SIX: HERMANN ZOEST’S CALENDARIUM HEBRAICUM NOVUM (1436)\t 1.\tThe Jewish calendar in the work of Hermann Zoest\t 2.\tCalendarium Hebraicum novum: structure and contents\t 3.\tThe manuscripts\t 4.\tThe edition\t HERMANNUS ZOESTIUS: CALENDARIUM HEBRAICUM NOVUM\t HERMANN ZOEST: A NEW HEBREW CALENDAR\t 5.\tChronological commentary on Hermann’s Calendarium\t APPENDIX I: JOHN OF PULCHRO RIVO ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR\t APPENDIX II: NOTES ON FURTHER TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS\t BIBLIOGRAPHY","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210650837335,"sku":"9789004272446","price":196.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medieval-latin-christian-texts-on-the-jewish-calendar-a-study-with-five-editions-and-translations-9789004272446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}