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Zusatztext "An innovative perspective on time and Judaism and a contribution as valuable as its subject is vast. From now on, I will pause to ponder the attitudes towards time expressed by the authors, protagonists, and readers of the Jewish texts I encounter, and my anticipated musings are a greater gift than Sylvie Anne Goldberg could have given me with a fresh block of information." Informationen zum Autor Sylvie Anne Goldberg teaches at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and is the author of several books including Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Ninteenth-Century Prague . Klappentext A study of the emergence of unified dating, calculation of elapsed time to establish an era from the creation of the world, this book is a historical challenge to the prejudice saying that Jews dismissed history after the destruction of the Second Temple and the completion of the Talmud. Zusammenfassung A study of the emergence of unified dating, calculation of elapsed time to establish an era from the creation of the world, this book is a historical challenge to the prejudice saying that Jews dismissed history after the destruction of the Second Temple and the completion of the Talmud. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Ad tempus universal. . . A Time for Everyone? 2. Where Does Time Come From? 3. Where Is Time Going? 4. God's Time, Humanity's Time 5. The Time to Come 6. Temporal Scansions 7. Eschatological Scansions: Jubilees and Apocalypses 8. Historiographical Scansions: Between Adam and the Present Time 9. Mathematical Scansions: In What Era? 10. Directed Time 11. Exercises in Rabbinic Calculation 12. Exercises in Rabbinic Thought 13. A Fleeting Conclusion
