Download or read book The New Book of Festivals and Commemorations written by Philip H. Pfatteicher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * An ecumenical calendar of saints and other Christian exemplars to enrich liturgy, group devotions, and personal prayer * Ecumenical, but also fully flagged for use in particular denominations

Download or read book A Calendar of Festivals written by and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When kids go trick-or-treating on Halloween, they may not know that they are taking part in an ancient Celtic festival. A Calendar of Festivals is a compelling collection taking readers back to the origins of many festivals celebrated throughout the world-including the Jewish festival of Purim, Russian New Year, the Indian festival of Holi and, of course, Christmas.

Download or read book All Year Round written by Sue Fitzjohn and published by Festivals and the Seasons. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Year Round is brimming with things to make, activities, stories, poems and songs to share with your family. It is full of well-illustrated ideas for fun and celebration: from Candlemas to Christmas and Midsummer's day to the Winter solstice.Observing the round of festivals is an enjoyable way to bring rhythm into children's lives and provide a series of meaningful landmarks to look forward to. Each festival has a special character of its own: participation can deepen our understanding and love of nature and bring a gift to the whole family. All Year Round invites you to start celebrating now!

Download or read book Calendar of Festivals written by Cherry Gilchrist and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales for festivals of different religions and cultures, including Hindu, Jewish, Celtic, Buddhist, Caribbean, and Russian.

Download or read book Holidays Festivals and Celebrations of the World Dictionary written by Sue Ellen Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the background of each holiday and how it is celebrated.

Download or read book A Calendar of Festivals written by Cherry Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that when you go trick-or-treating on Halloween, you are taking part in an ancient Celtic festival? Or that many of the old customs of Christmas were adopted from the Romans? This collection takes us back to the origins of many festivals that are celebrated throughout the world & traces the stories that are connected to them. Some of the tales honor special times of year while others relate to religious festivals -- yet each one is full of the excitement that surrounds times of celebration. Beautifully illus., this book includes stories about Halloween; the Jewish Story of EstherÓ; a tale from the West Indies for Kwanzaa; the Japanese festival of Tanabata; the Russian New Year; the Indian festival of Holi; the Moon Festival of China; & Christmas.

Download or read book A Calendar of Festivals written by Marian Green and published by Element Books, Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the traditional festivals that we celebrate really mean? Where do the origins of seasonal custom lie? What are the dances and recipes that have been appropriate to each month of the year since the days of old? A Calendar of Festivals reveals the fascinating details of all the traditional practices. Line illustrations.

Download or read book Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar written by Jan A. Wagenaar and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focusses on the origin and transformation of the priestly festival calendar. Since the epoch-making work of Julius Wellhausen at the end of the 19th century the differences between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars have often been explained in terms of a gradual evolution, which shows an increasing historicisation, denaturalisation and ritualisation. The festivals were in Wellhausen's view gradually detached from agricultural conditions and celebrated more and more at fixed points in the year. This study tries to show that the changes in the priestly festival calendar reflect a conscious effort to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the semi-annual layout of the Babylonian festival year. The ramifications of the change only come to the fore after a careful study of the agricultural conditions of ancient Israel - and Mesopotamia - makes clear that passover and the festival of unleavened bread were originally celebrated in the second month of the year. The first month of the year envisaged by the priestly festival calendar for the celebration of passover and the festival of unleavened bread in turn mirrors the date of one of the two semi-annual Babylonian New Year festivals. The two Babylonian New Year festivals were celebrated exactly six months apart at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. In order to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the Babylonian scheme with two New Year festivals a year, the date of passover and the festival of unleavened bread had to be moved up by one month. The consequences for the origin of passover, the festival of unleavened bread, the festival of weeks and the festival of huts are charted and the relations between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars are determined anew.

Download or read book World Holiday Festival and Calendar Books written by Tanya Gulevich and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes some 1,000 resources on world holidays, festivals, and calendars. Entries encompass dictionaries, guidebooks, folklore and ethnic studies, children's books, historical studies, scholarly analysis and philosophical discussions, and works about calendars and time reckoning systems. Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress numbers and ISBNs are given for most entries. Periodicals, associations, and Web sites are also listed. Useful for those working in libraries, education, and religious institutions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Holidays Festivals and Celebrations of the World Dictionary written by Helene Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains descriptions of nearly 2,500 special days commemorated by people of various countries, cultures, and religions around the world; arranged alphabetically by name of holiday.

Download or read book Time at Emar written by Daniel E. Fleming and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2000-06-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the “diviner.” This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months. The main public rite of Emar’s religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming’s comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria.

Download or read book Calendar of Folk Festivals Related Events written by National Folk Festival Association and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Festivals and Saints Days written by Victor J. Green and published by Blandford. This book was released on 1978 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chase s Calendar of Events 2021 written by Editors of Chase's and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is celebrating and commemorating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical anniversaries to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2021, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2021 is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth The 400th anniversary of the Plymouth pilgrim Thanksgiving The 200th independence anniversary from Spain of its Central and South American colonies. The 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre Scores of new special days, weeks and months Birthdays of new world leaders, office holders, and breakout stars And much more! All from the reference book that Publishers Weekly calls "one of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."

Download or read book Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt written by Sherif El-Sabban and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temple calendars of Ancient Egypt indicate the dates of religious festivals and the supplies needed for these and for the regular cult. They reflect the attitudes of the Egyptians to the worship of their gods as a basic foundation of their lives; the temple was the god's home on Earth, and the daily food and drink offerings made to the deity were equivalent to the meals of his earthly worshippers. For special festivals, depending on the particular deity and the wealth of a particular temple, special additional supplies were brought in, and the custom became established of making calendars which listed the amount and variety of regular offerings, the dates and names of the year's festivals, and the extra provisions to be offered and enjoyed on those occasions.

Download or read book Celebrating Hindu Festivals written by Liz Miles and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Hindus believe? How do they celebrate what is important to them? What food do they eat during festival time? How do Hindus in the UK celebrate? Read this book to find out the answers to these questions and more. Celebrating Hindu Festivals looks at important religious and family days in the Hindu calendar, and gets readers to take part by cooking some of the food central to Hindu celebrations. The book looks at both international and UK examples of Hindu celebrations. Infosearch asks the questions you want answered.

Download or read book The Appointed Festivals of YHWH written by Karl William Weyde and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author discusses the profile and development of the festivals in ancient Israel in the light of the evidence from the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Particular attention is paid to the sukkot festival, which seems to have been a predominant festival in exilic and post-exilic times. This book contains two parts. The first part is a study of the festival calendar in Leviticus 23, the second deals with texts related to the sukkot festival (the festival of booths) in the Hebrew Bible. Thus, focusing on the last festival of the year mentioned in Leviticus 23, the second part of the book is closely connected to the first. Contents include: Introduction, ""A Sabbath of Complete Rest"" Lev. 23:3, Passover and the massot Festival Lev. 23:5-8, The Grain Festival Lev. 23:10-22, The Trumpet Blasts Lev. 23:24-25, The Day of Atonement Lev. 23:27-32, The sukkot Festival Lev. 23:34-36, Additions to the sukkot Legislation Lev. 23:39-43, The Dedication of the First Temple and the Festival in the Seventh Month. 1 Kings 8, The Psalms and the sukkot Festival, Zech 14:16-21 and the sukkot Festival."