Calendrical Variations in Second Temple Judaism (Repost)
Stephane Saulnier, "Calendrical Variations in Second Temple Judaism: New Perspectives on the ‘Date of the Last Supper’ Debate"
2012 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 9004169636 | PDF | 1,1 mb
2012 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 9004169636 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The first seeds for the present undertaking were sown during the academic year 2000–2001, while participating in a seminar on the issue of the date of the Last Supper in John’s Gospel, in the context of a second year BA Hon-ours course on Johannine Literature, taken at Canterbury Christ Church University. It is during this particular seminar that I was first introduced to the work of the great scholar Annie Jaubert and her theory on the date of the Last Supper. I was intrigued. Two years later I embarked on a doc-toral program with the intention of researching further the issue. Initially armed with firm resolve to solve the entire issue I quickly learnt that down sizing and focusing my research proposal was indeed the way to go if I intended to complete the project in a timely manner. Of the three main areas covered by Jaubert’s novel thesis I decided to tackle first that which to me seemed the most central, that is the various calendrical traditions exemplified in the extant textual sources of the second Temple period.
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