Time in the Babylonian Talmud : Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative
by
Lynn Kaye
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
110842323X
ISBN-13
9781108423236
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 2018
Print length
202 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.50 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Ancient WorldBabyloniaJudaism: sacred textsJudaism: sacred texts and revered writings
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This book describes how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today. It makes accessible complex legal texts and philosophical ideas and explains their relevance for the history and philosophy of time, theology, comparative religion, intellectual history of late antiquity and legal studies.
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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