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Tammuz is the name of a month in the Jewish calendar.  Roughly corresponds to early summer.
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* '''Tammuz:''' the 10th month of the Jewish religious calendar and the 4th month in the Jewish civil calendar; it corresponds roughly to June-July in the Gregorian claendar → a hot month when fruits ripen
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammuz_%28month%29 Wikipedia]
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* Tammuz: a dying and resurrecting god of ancient Mesopotamia, equated with the Greek Adonis and the Irish Diarmuid
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** [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/index.shtml Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' 1.446 ff]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammuz Wikipedia]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160366 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]

Revision as of 10:35, 10 November 2006

  • Tammuz: the 10th month of the Jewish religious calendar and the 4th month in the Jewish civil calendar; it corresponds roughly to June-July in the Gregorian claendar → a hot month when fruits ripen