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Time and Process in Ancient Judaism
Sacha Stern
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Description for Time and Process in Ancient Judaism
paperback. A comprehensive study of time, time-reckoning, and chronology in ancient Judaism, showing that ancient Jewish world-views were based not on time but rather on process. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 227.
This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the complete range of Jewish sources from this period: mainly early rabbinic literature, but also Jewish Hellenistic literature, Qumran sources, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and inscriptions. Following a methodological introduction drawing on anthropological studies, the author starts by focusing on the word used for time in early rabbinic literature, zeman. He shows that it means only ‘points in time’ or finite periods of time, but that the concept ... Read more
This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the complete range of Jewish sources from this period: mainly early rabbinic literature, but also Jewish Hellenistic literature, Qumran sources, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and inscriptions. Following a methodological introduction drawing on anthropological studies, the author starts by focusing on the word used for time in early rabbinic literature, zeman. He shows that it means only ‘points in time’ or finite periods of time, but that the concept ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904113683
SKU
V9781904113683
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About Sacha Stern
Sacha Stern is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at University College London. His published works include Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings (1994) and Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, Second Century BCE–Tenth Century CE (2001).
Reviews for Time and Process in Ancient Judaism
‘This excellent, illuminating, insightful, perceptive, cogently argued, clearly written book is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time, offering a new perspective on the world-view of ancient Judaism and its links with other cultures of the Near East of late antiquity. Stern casts his new wide and his findings are intriguing . . . ... Read more