Time in the Babylonian Talmud : natural and imaginative times in Jewish law and narrative / Lynne Kaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye, Lynne, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in rabbinical literature.

Time--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Time.

Time (Jewish law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In this book, Lynn Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today. Providing close readings of legal and narrative texts in the Babylonian Talmud, she compares temporal ideas with related concepts in ancient and modern philosophical texts and in religious traditions from late antique Mesopotamia. Kaye demonstrates that temporal flexibility in the Babylonian Talmud is a means of exploring and resolving legal uncertainties, as well as a tool to tell stories that convey ideas effectively and dramatically. Her book, the first on time in the Talmud, makes accessible complex legal texts and philosophical ideas. It also connects the literature of late antique Judaism with broader theological and philosophical debates about time.

Contents:

Spatial, temporal and kinesthetic concepts of simultaneity

Divine temporal precision and human inaccuracy

Being fixed in time

Retroactivity reimagined

Matzah and madeleines.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-53010-9

1-108-52561-X

1-108-53436-8