Time in the Babylonian Talmud
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Time in the Babylonian Talmud

Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative

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Time in the Babylonian Talmud

Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781108534369
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Jewish Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. Texts and transliteration
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Spatial, Temporal, and Kinesthetic Concepts of Simultaneity
  11. Chapter 2 Divine Temporal Precision and Human Inaccuracy
  12. Chapter 3 Being Fixed in Time
  13. Chapter 4 Retroactivity Reimagined
  14. Chapter 5 Matzah and Madeleines
  15. Epilogue
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index