Fwd: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar

[Tom Peters-6]

Cross-post because of interest to this group.

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> Van: "STEELE J.M." <j.m.steele@...>
> Datum: 17 april 2009 17:48:16 GMT+02:00
> Aan: HASTRO-L@...
> Onderwerp: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> Antwoord aan: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-
> L@...>
>
> Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition
>
> The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, January 30th - February 1st, 2010
> Tu B'Shvat 5770
>
> Call for Papers
>
> The "Living the Lunar Calendar" Conference -- held under the full moon
> of the Jewish festival of the New Year for Trees-- will investigate
> the place of calendar reckoning in human society and culture. Focusing
> on the Moon as a marker of the passage of time, the conference will
> address a wide variety of issues regarding the application of
> astronomical and calendrical rules to everyday life, and beyond to the
> shaping of cultural identity.
>
> The lunar calendar with its irregular pattern of 29/30 day months,
> requiring an uneven number of months to match the passage of an annual
> solar/stellar cycle brings with it a measure of uncertainty. It can be
> observed that the Moon is at one and the same time both constant and
> unpredictable, leading civilizations to adopt divergent modes of
> reflection on the stable and unstable components of their existence in
> time. With the Moon, time does not only exist in nature, but needs to
> be regulated by man. Human measures of day, month, and year, must live
> with these uncertainties. In cultures that use the lunar calendar, one
> must find answers to such mundane questions as: "When does the month,
> the year, begin? How are salaries and interest to be calculated over
> months of uneven length and years of unequal months?  Is the date in
> one city the same in all cities?"
>
> More generally, cultures had to account for the apparent anomaly in
> nature, defining just how much human involvement is required in fixing
> the central concepts of time. This ideological dilemma joined forces
> with the political and societal conflicts in antiquity, both within
> the great empires as well as smaller ethnic and cultural entities. The
> calendar thus participated significantly in the formation of
> civilization and identity.
>
> We will gather at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem (BLMJ) and the site
> of Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea, to address these types of
> issues in sessions covering the cuneiform Ancient Near East, Egypt,
> Ancient Israel, The Greco-Roman World, Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
> the Far East, Africa, and Mesoamerica. Central focus will be given to
> the ancient world, but with an open eye towards later periods. Papers
> are invited by scholars on the following general topics:
>
>    * Everyday Life in Lunar Regulated Societies
>    * Calendrical Principles, especially in regard to harmonizing the
> Lunar Calendar with other systems such as the Egyptian civil calendar,
> the Julian Calendar, the Jewish sectarian system of 364 day years.
>    * Cultural Statements about the Moon, the Sun, the Stars and the
> concept of Time.
>    * Anthropological, Sociological, and Philosophical trajectories of
> the above.
>
> Submission of papers are invited by the Academic Organizing Committee:
>
> Jonathan Ben-Dov (Haifa University), Wayne Horowitz (The Hebrew
> University), John Steele (Brown University), Filip Vukosavovic (BLMJ),
> and should consist of a title and abstract of no more than 200 words.
> Papers relating solely to issues of chronology will not be considered.
>
> Presentations will be between 25-45 minutes including time for
> questions, and are to be delivered in English. Papers from the
> conference will be published in electronic form. The deadline for
> submissions is 31st July, 2009.
>
> The conference will be held under the auspices of the Bible Lands
> Museum Jerusalem and The CAENO Foundation, and will include three days
> of sessions and events at the Museum, with an afternoon and evening at
> Qumran. Technical details will be provided at a later date. For
> further information and submission of abstracts, please contact
> curatorial@....

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Tom Peters

[Amos Shapir]

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Hi Irv, it looks like a great opportunity to present your ideas about the Jewish calendar reform!

(Maybe other lunar calendars like Palmen's Yerms, might be of interest too)

Amos Shapir
 



 

> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:53 +0200
> From: tpeters@...
> Subject: Fwd: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> To: CALNDR-L@...
>
> Cross-post because of interest to this group.
>
> Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
>
> > Van: "STEELE J.M." <j.m.steele@...>
> > Datum: 17 april 2009 17:48:16 GMT+02:00
> > Aan: HASTRO-L@...
> > Onderwerp: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> > Antwoord aan: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-
> > L@...>
> >
> > Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition
> >
> > The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, January 30th - February 1st, 2010
> > Tu B'Shvat 5770
> >
> > Call for Papers

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[Karl Palmen]

Dear Amos, Irv, Tom and Calendar People

My reply is below.

From: East Carolina University Calendar discussion List [mailto:CALNDR-L@...] On Behalf Of Amos Shapir
Sent: 18 April 2009 22:30
To: CALNDR-L@...
Subject: Re: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar

Hi Irv, it looks like a great opportunity to present your ideas about the Jewish calendar reform!

(Maybe other lunar calendars like Palmen's Yerms, might be of interest too)

KARL SAYS:
Besides my Yerm Calendar http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/palmen/yerm1.htm ,
A 13-month month lunar calendar with solar dates http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/palmen/lunar13.htm and
My lunisolar cycle spreadsheets http://www.the-light.com/cal/kp_Lunisolar_xls.html .

Karl

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Amos Shapir
 



 

> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:53 +0200
> From: tpeters@...
> Subject: Fwd: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> To: CALNDR-L@...
>
> Cross-post because of interest to this group.
>
> Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
>
> > Van: "STEELE J.M." <j.m.steele@...>
> > Datum: 17 april 2009 17:48:16 GMT+02:00
> > Aan: HASTRO-L@...
> > Onderwerp: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> > Antwoord aan: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-
> > L@...>
> >
> > Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition
> >
> > The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, January 30th - February 1st, 2010
> > Tu B'Shvat 5770
> >
> > Call for Papers

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[Karl Palmen]

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Dear Amos and Calendar People

 

You may remember that the 19-year cycle can be constructed out of years alternating between 49 and 50 quarter moons so that year 1 and 19 of the 19-year cycle each have 49 quarter moons.  Suppose you want the quarter-moon new year to always occur within Tishri and the quarter-moon 19-year cycle to start at the start of a lunar month, then it must start at year 12 of the Hebrew 19-year cycle. Then we have the quarter-moon new year occurring in the following quarters of Tishri:

 

12: Q1  13: Q2

14: Q4  15: Q1

16: Q3  17: Q4

18: Q2  19: Q3

01: Q1  02: Q2

03: Q4  04: Q1

05: Q3  06: Q4

06: Q2  08: Q3

09: Q1  10: Q2

11: Q4  12: Q1

 

All quarter-moon years that begin on the first quarter (12, 15, 01,  04,  09)  are preceded by a leap month year.

 

Karl

 

From: East Carolina University Calendar discussion List [mailto:CALNDR-L@...] On Behalf Of Amos Shapir
Sent: 18 April 2009 22:30
To: CALNDR-L@...
Subject: Re: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar

 

Hi Irv, it looks like a great opportunity to present your ideas about the Jewish calendar reform!

(Maybe other lunar calendars like Palmen's Yerms, might be of interest too)

Amos Shapir
 



 
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:53 +0200
> From: tpeters@...
> Subject: Fwd: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> To: CALNDR-L@...
>
> Cross-post because of interest to this group.
>
> Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
>
> > Van: "STEELE J.M." <j.m.steele@...>
> > Datum: 17 april 2009 17:48:16 GMT+02:00
> > Aan: HASTRO-L@...
> > Onderwerp: [HASTRO-L] Conference: Living the Lunar Calendar
> > Antwoord aan: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-
> > L@...>
> >
> > Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition
> >
> > The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, January 30th - February 1st, 2010
> > Tu B'Shvat 5770
> >
> > Call for Papers

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