Construction of Time in Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

Ritual, Art, and Identity
Redaktion: Ben-Dov, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Time has always held a fascination for human beings, who have attempted to relate to it and to make sense of it, constructing and deconstructing it through its various prisms, since time cannot be experienced in an unmediated way. This book answers the needs of a growing community of scholars and readers who are interested in this interaction. It offers a series of innovative studies by both senior and younger experts on various aspects of the construction of time in antiquity. Some articles in this book contain visual material published for the first time, while other studies update the field with new theories or apply new approaches to relevant sources. Within the study of antiquity, the book covers the disciplines of Classics and Ancient History, Assyriology, Egyptology, Ancient Judaism, and Early Christianity, with thematic contributions on rituals, festivals, astronomy, calendars, medicine, art, and narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108506090
• Artikelnr.: 49264579

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Lutz Doering and Jonathan Ben-Dov; 2 Time and natural law
in Jewish-Hellenistic writings Jonathan Ben-Dov; 3. Calendars, politics,
and power relations in the Roman Empire Sacha Stern; 4. Doubling religion
in the Augustan Age: shaping time for an empire Jörg Rüpke; 5. Real and
constructed time in Babylonian astral medicine John Steele; 6. The
intellectual background of the Antikythera mechanism Robert Hannah; 7.
Divine figurations of time in Ancient Egypt Alexandra von Lieven; 8. The
moon and the power of time reckoning in Ancient Mesopotamia Lorenzo
Verderame; 9. Toward a phenomenology of time in ancient Greek art SeungJung
Kim; 10. Women's bodies as metaphors for time in biblical, second temple,
and rabbinic literature Sarit Kattan Gribetz; 11. The beginning of sabbath
and festivals in ancient Jewish sources Lutz Doering; 12. Seasoning the
bible and biblifying time through fixed liturgical reading systems
(lectionaries) Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra; 13. The Roman ember days of September
and the Jewish New Year Robert Hayward; 14. Celebrations and the abstention
from celebrations of sacred time in Early Christianity Clemens Leonhard.