Time in the Babylonian Talmud - Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

List of contents

1. Spatial, temporal and kinesthetic concepts of simultaneity; 2. Divine temporal precision and human inaccuracy; 3. Being fixed in time; 4. Retroactivity reimagined; 5. Matzah and madeleines.

About the author

Lynn Kaye is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. Her research in rabbinic literature combines historical and textual analysis with literary theory, poetics, phenomenology and legal theory. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. She has held fellowships at the law schools of Yeshiva University and New York University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Kaye, Lynn (Ohio State University) Kaye, Lynne Kaye, Lynne (Ohio State University) Kaye
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781108423236
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42323-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Judaism / General, Judaism, Babylonia, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts