The Jewish calendar controversy of 921/2 CE
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 11136
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004388673
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004388666
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book of c.600 pages is an outcome of the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. It is based on a corpus of manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah, many of which are in a poor state of preservation, and many of which needed to be discovered. After searching and finding the fragments, the complex, poorly legible scientific texts were deciphered, edited, translated, and elucidated. It then became necessary to re-appraise the history of the calendar controversy of 921/2. This work required a multi-disciplinary approach involving palaeography, philology, social history, and the history of science.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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