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The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE (Hardcover)
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The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE (Hardcover)
Series: Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 7
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In the year 921/2, the Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia
disagreed on how to calculate the calendar. This led the Jews of
the entire Near East to celebrate Passover and the other festivals,
through two years, on different dates. The controversy was major,
but it became forgotten until its late 19th-century rediscovery in
the Cairo Genizah. Faulty editions of the texts, in the following
decades, led to much misunderstanding about the nature, leadership,
and aftermath of the controversy. In this book, Sacha Stern
re-edits the texts completely, discovers many new Genizah sources,
and challenges the historical consensus. This book sheds light on
early medieval Rabbanite leadership and controversies, and on the
processes that eventually led to the standardization of the
medieval Jewish calendar.
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