Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Notes on the Contributors

pp.：  7 – 12

Preface

pp.：  13 – 22

Chapter 1. A Jewish Parapegma? Reading 1 Enoch 82 in Roman Egypt

pp.：  23 – 48

Chapter 2. Observing the Moon: Astronomical and Cosmological Aspects in the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure

pp.：  49 – 62

Chapter 3. Cosmology as Science or Cosmology as Theology? Reflections on the Astronomical Chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer

pp.：  63 – 86

Chapter 4. Some Early Islamic and Christian Sources Regarding the Jewish Calendar (9th–11th centuries)

pp.：  87 – 100

Chapter 5. The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921–22: Reconstructing the Manuscripts and their Transmission History

pp.：  101 – 118

Chapter 6. The Hebrew Calendrical Bookshelf of the Early Twelfth Century: The Cases of Abraham bar Hiyya and Jacob bar Samson

pp.：  119 – 134

Chapter 7. Scribal Prerogative in Modifying Calendrical Tables

pp.：  135 – 176

Chapter 8. Astronomical Tables of Abraham bar Hiyya

pp.：  177 – 230

Chapter 9. The Sabbath Epistle by Abraham Ibn Ezra: Its Purpose and Novelty

pp.：  231 – 242

Chapter 10. Medieval Jews and Medieval Astrolabes: Where, Why, How, and What For?

pp.：  243 – 294

Chapter 11. Some Hygiene and Dietary Calendars in Hebrew Manuscripts from Medieval Ashkenaz

pp.：  295 – 348

Chapter 12. Me pudet audire Iudeum talia scire: A Late Medieval Latin School Text on the Jewish Calendar

pp.：  349 – 387