Sacha Stern
Sacha Stern
Sacha Stern is professor of Jewish Studies at University College London. He has widely researched the Jewish and other calendars and is currently directing several research projects on ancient and medieval calendars. His publications include Calendar and Community: a History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd cent. BCE–10th cent. CE (Oxford University Press, 2001), Time and Process in Ancient Judaism (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies (Oxford University Press, 2012).
The Babylonian Calendar and the Bible
The Babylonian months and calendar were adopted by the Jews in the postexilic period, a time when the Babylonian calendar widely served as the official imperial calendar in the Near East.