Le Rouleau de cuivre de la grotte 3 de Qumrân (3Q15)

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The Astrolabe

An ancient instrument for solving problems of location and distance, as well as time

Astrolábon órganon is the word used in Ptolemaeus Syntaxis 5.1 to describe a form of armillary sphere consisting of both fixed and rotating rings for determining the ecliptic co-ordinates of stars. Also called astrolabe were two-dimensional representations of the celestial sphere: over fixed disks with a representation of the horizon of the earth (in each case for a specific geographic latitude) and its parallels up to the zenith lies a rotating representation of the heavens (called ‘spider’ or ‘net’) with zodiac and indicators for some of the brightest stars. On the back is an indicator (‘alidade’) with visor plates for calculating the height of the stars. The astrolabe allows its user to determine the hours of day and night, the positions of stars, and the height and depth of objects on earth (mountains, buildings, wells). The oldest extant descriptions of the flat, planispheric astrolabe come from Iohannes Philoponus, 6th century AD, and (in Syrian) from Severus Sebokht, c. 660 AD. Indirect references may date back as early as Theon (4th cent.). Between the 8th and the 9th centuries the Arabs appropriated the knowledge of the astrolabe. At the end of the 10th century and again in the 12th century, they passed it on to Western Europe, where astrolabes were constructed up until the 17th cent. Today, one Byzantine astrolabe (from 1062) is extant, as are some 750 Arabic-Islamic astrolabes and approximately the same number of European astrolabes.

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Le Rouleau de cuivre de la grotte 3 de Qumrân (3Q15)

Expertise - Restauration - Epigraphie

par Daniel Brizemeure et Noël Lacoudre. EDF et Émile Puech, CNRS et EBAF. Présenté par Jean-Michel Poffet, directeur de l’Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem.

Books

Available
Publication year: 2006


Series:	Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 55
ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007:	978 90 04 14030 1
ISBN-10:	90 04 14030 1

Cover:	Cloth with dustjacket
Number of pages:	xxiv, 228 pp, xxviii, 424 pp.

List price:	€ 205.00 / US$ 304.00

Reviews

'In the end, Le Rouleau de cuivre now forms much of the foundation upon which all
subsequent work on the Copper Scroll will have to be built.' - Brian Schultz, Fresno Pacific University. 'With this publication, some of the 'hidden treasures' of the Copper
Scroll have been uncovered — just not the ones described in the Scroll itself.' Samuel Thomas, California Lutheran University.

Readership

All those intrested in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the History of Late Antiquity, as well as Semitic philologists and technicians specialized in the preservation of ancient metal

About the author(s)

Daniel Brizemeure, Juriste de formation (Recherche et Développement, Direction des Affaires Internationales), Responsable de la communication du Mécénat Technologique et Scientifique d’EDF (1992 - 1999). Directeur de l’Espace EDF-ELECTRA de la Fondation EDF (1999 – 2002)

Noël Lacoudre, Chimiste à Electricité de France (Recherche et Développement, Production Nucléaire), Responsable du Laboratoire EDF – VALECTRA (1985 – 2005) opérant dans le cadre du Mécénat Technologique et Scientifique de la Fondation EDF (objets du Titanic, artefacts et manuscrit de cuivre de Qumrân, collection d’instruments SAX, …..).

Emile Puech, Dr (1992) en Histoire et Anthropologie réligieuse, La Sorbonne, Paris, Dr (1992) en Théologie, Institut Catholique de Paris, Habilité (2001) Faculté de Théologie, Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, est Directeur de Recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, et Professeur à l’Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jerusalem. Il a publié entre autres un lot de manuscrits hébreux et araméens de la Grotte 4 (lot Starcky), et est directeur de la Revue de Qumran (Gabalda, Paris).

This book in two volumes gives the status quaestionis of the Qumran Copper Scroll, fifty years after its discovery.
The first part of volume one, amply illustrated with graphics and images, gives the technical expertise of its state of preservation together with the proposals for treatment developed by the laboratory EDF-Valectra for its restoration-conservation. The production of a facsimile by means of galvanoplasty and digitalized images is explained.
The second part of volume one gives a largely renewed edition of the engraved Hebrew text with an up-to-date commentary, French and English translations, and indices.
The second volume of nearly 400 plates publishes photographs and X-Rays of each segment before and after treatment, as well as the reproduction by means of galvanoplasty and digitalized images.

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