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Time and Process in Ancient Judaism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization SeriesPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (151 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781909821798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Time and Process in Ancient JudaismDDC classification:
  • 296.3
LOC classification:
  • BM729.T55 .S747 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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