Sylvie Anne Goldberg

Clepsydra

Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism
Übersetzer: Ivry, Benjamin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the emergence of unified dating, calculation of elapsed time to establish an era from the creation of the world, this book is a historical challenge to the prejudice saying that Jews dismissed history after the destruction of the Second Temple and the completion of the Talmud.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780804789059
• ISBN-10: 0804789053
• Artikelnr.: 42788515

Autorenporträt

Sylvie Anne Goldberg teaches at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and is the author of several books including Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Ninteenth-Century Prague.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Ad tempus universal. . . A Time for Everyone?
2. Where Does Time Come From?
3. Where Is Time Going?
4. God's Time, Humanity's Time
5. The Time to Come
6. Temporal Scansions
7. Eschatological Scansions: Jubilees and Apocalypses
8. Historiographical Scansions: Between Adam and the Present Time
9. Mathematical Scansions: In What Era?
10. Directed Time
11. Exercises in Rabbinic Calculation
12. Exercises in Rabbinic Thought
13. A Fleeting Conclusion