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Time
and Process in Ancient Judaism
Sacha Stern
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This comprehensive study of time, time-reckoning, and chronology in ancient Jewish sources demonstrates that the concept of time as an entity or a continuum was entirely absent from ancient Judaism. Reality and change were conceived in terms of concrete processes. This stands in contrast with the world-view of Graeco-Roman culture and its pervasive concept of chronos, but finds parallels in the cultures of the ancient Near East. Sacha Stern discusses these findings from a variety of historical and anthropological perspectives.
Sacha Stern is Reader in 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).
| Format |
23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9" |
| Pages | 152 |
| ISBN/ISSN | 978-1-874774-95-2 |
| Price | £19.95 / $29.50 £14.95 / $24.95 (paperback) |
| Date of publication | October 2003 29 November 2007 (paperback) print on demand |
© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008