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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Sylvie Anne, author.

Contributor:

Ivry, Benjamin, translator.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Religious aspects--Judaism--History.

Time.

History--Religious aspects--Judaism.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and relative. Time is not a uniform phenomenon. It is a social construct made of beliefs, scientific knowledge, and political experiment. It is also a story told by theologians, historians, philosophers, and astrophysicists. Consequently, 'Clepsydra' is a cultural history divided in two parts: narrated time and measured time, recounted time and counted time, absolute time and ordered time. It is through this dialog that Sylvie Anne Goldberg challenges the idea of a unified Judeo-Christian time and asks, 'What is Jewish time?'.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments from the French Edition

Preface

Scriptural Abbreviations Cited

Introduction

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

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 Calculation

12. 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

Notes:

Translated from the French.

This translation previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 25, 2023).

ISBN:

9780804797160

0804797161

OCLC:

1178768958