Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Etudes Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
178,1-2 (2019) 159-184
Keywords:
Manuscripts, Hebrew
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Manuscript dating
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Chronograms
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Creation Religious aspects
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Judaism
Abstract:
The Creation era, widespread among the Jews already in the Middle Ages, is usually considered clear and reliable. However in certain manuscripts the year from the Creation of the World can be ambiguous, either because of a vagueness of its number indicated in the colophon, or because of an unusual variation in the year reckoning itself. This paper demonstrates and analyzes such examples, providing attempts for clarifying the precise date. The main results relate to the millennia indication in the chronograms, which sometimes should be dated five years earlier than was usually supposed, and the reckoning based on Adam epoch in the region of Greater Iran, where colophons reveal the use of the Creation era differed in one year from the generally known system.
DOI:
10.2143/REJ.178.1.3286072
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