Time and Process in Ancient Judaism.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781909821798
- 296.3
- BM729.T55 .S747 2007
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Anthropological and Other Perspectives -- 1. Time-or its Absence-in Early Rabbinic Culture -- 2. Timing and Time-Reckoning -- 3. Calendar, Chronology, and History -- 4. Time and Ethics: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages -- 5. The Greeks and Jewish Hellenistic Culture -- 6. Jewish Culture and the Ancient Near East -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
This illuminating study is about the absence of time as an entity in itself in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Evidence is drawn from a complete range of Jewish sources from this period.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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