The Calendar of Sabbath Years During the Second Temple Era: A Response

In his paper "The Sabbath Year Cycle in Josephus" (HUCA LII, 1981), D. Blosser argues that the Jewish historian mistakenly refers to famines as having occurred in the year of shemittah when he means the post-sabbatical year, i.e., the first year of the next cycle. This was necessarily so b...

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Publicado en:Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Autor principal: Wacholder, Ben Zion 1921-2011 (Autor)
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Publicado: College 1983
En: Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Iran (Antigüedad) / Historia 539 a. C.-330 a. C.
Clasificaciones IxTheo:HD Judaísmo primitivo
Otras palabras clave:B Calendario
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Sumario:In his paper "The Sabbath Year Cycle in Josephus" (HUCA LII, 1981), D. Blosser argues that the Jewish historian mistakenly refers to famines as having occurred in the year of shemittah when he means the post-sabbatical year, i.e., the first year of the next cycle. This was necessarily so because the effects of the observance of the shemittah could only be felt in the eighth year. But Blosser's argument is not convincing. Josephus certainly knew the difference between the year of shemittah and the post-sabbatical year. Furthermore it is not correct to assume, as Blosser does, that famines occurred routinely during sabbatical cycles. After all, disasters are unpredictable events whereas the observance of shemittah was routine and therefore planned. Contemporary documents from Murabaʿat show that the references to the seventh year in Josephus are correct.
ISSN:0360-9049
Obras secundarias:In: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion