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Clepsydra : essay on the plurality of time in Judaism / Sylvie Anne Goldberg ; translated by Benjamin Ivry.

By: Language: English Original language: French Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and CPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804797160
  • 0804797161
Uniform titles:
  • Clepsydre. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clepsydra.DDC classification:
  • 296.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BM729.T55
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments from the French Edition; Preface; Scriptural Abbreviations Cited; Introduction; Part I. Narrated Time; 1. Ad tempus universale ... 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; Part II. Time Counted Down, or the World Order; The Course of Eras and Calculations of Time; 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 Calculation12. Exercises in Rabbinic Thought; 13. A Fleeting Conclusion; Afterword to the English Translation; Appendix; Approximate Chronology; The Alphabet and Numerical Values of Letters; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
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"Originally published in French in 2000 under the title La Clepsydre: Essai sur la pluralité des temps dans le judaïsme."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgments from the French Edition; Preface; Scriptural Abbreviations Cited; Introduction; Part I. Narrated Time; 1. Ad tempus universale ... 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; Part II. Time Counted Down, or the World Order; The Course of Eras and Calculations of Time; 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 Calculation12. Exercises in Rabbinic Thought; 13. A Fleeting Conclusion; Afterword to the English Translation; Appendix; Approximate Chronology; The Alphabet and Numerical Values of Letters; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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