UID:
almahu_9947547080002882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108525619 (ebook)
Content:
In this book, Lynn Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today. Providing close readings of legal and narrative texts in the Babylonian Talmud, she compares temporal ideas with related concepts in ancient and modern philosophical texts and in religious traditions from late antique Mesopotamia. Kaye demonstrates that temporal flexibility in the Babylonian Talmud is a means of exploring and resolving legal uncertainties, as well as a tool to tell stories that convey ideas effectively and dramatically. Her book, the first on time in the Talmud, makes accessible complex legal texts and philosophical ideas. It also connects the literature of late antique Judaism with broader theological and philosophical debates about time.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2018).
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Spatial, temporal and kinesthetic concepts of simultaneity -- Divine temporal precision and human inaccuracy -- Being fixed in time -- Retroactivity reimagined -- Matzah and madeleines.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108423236
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525619
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
