Time and process in ancient Judaism /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stern, Sacha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Ore. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003.
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Subjects:
Time > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Time in the Bible.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Temps dans la Bible.
Littérature rabbinique > Histoire et critique.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Rabbinical literature
Time in the Bible
Time > Religious aspects > Judaism
Jodendom.
Tijd.
Tijdrekening.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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