A Newly Reconstructed Calendrical Scroll from Qumran in Cryptic Script

Ratzon, Eshbal; Ben-Dov, Jonathan

doi:10.1353/jbl.2017.0055

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“…This work has continued in recent years, especially by Ben-Dov (2008; and Ratzon (2012;, who have analyzed Second Temple calendrical texts in reference to Mesopotamian astronomical knowledge of the period. Most recently, Ratzon and Ben-Dov (2017) deciphered the most fragmentary and cryptic texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls using cutting-edge digital technology and have integrated them into our understanding of calendrical attitudes and calculations at Qumran. Ratzon (2018) has analyzed the development of relative hours in ancient Judea as well.…”

Section: Calendars Communities and The Construction Of Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kalman's dissertation (forthcoming), which examines the development of halakhah before and after the widespread use of mechanical clocks and other time-keeping devices, is one example of this new direction. Ratzon and Ben-Dov's (2017) emphasis on the absorption and adaptation of Mesopotamian astronomical knowledge into Second Temple texts is another, as is a recent book on time, calendars and astronomy edited by Stern and Burnett (2014). A joint project led by Sacha Stern and Ben-Dov hosted by the Israel Institute for Advanced Study in 2018 began working on the development of the 12-hour division of the day and night in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and the broader Mediterranean region, focusing on how astronomical and other scientific developments in time-keeping transformed conceptions of daily time and impacted religious traditions and practices.…”

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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Gribetz

Kaye

2019

Currents in Biblical Research

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Despite the apparent finality of Heschel’s pronouncement, in 1951, that Judaism is a ‘religion of time’, the past two decades have seen renewed scholarly interest in the relationship between time, time-keeping, and forms of temporality in Jewish culture. This vibrant engagement with time and temporality in Jewish studies is not an isolated phenomenon. It participates in a broader interdisciplinary examination of time across the arts, humanities and sciences, both in the academy and beyond it. The current article outlines the innovative approaches of this ‘temporal turn’ within ancient Judaism and Jewish studies and reflects on why time has become such an important topic of research in recent years. We address a number of questions: What are the trends in recent work on time and temporality in the fields of ancient Judaism and Jewish studies? What new insights into the study of Judaism have emerged as a result of this focus on time? What reasons (academic, historiographical, technological and geopolitical) underpin this interest in time in such a wide variety of disciplines? And finally, what are some new avenues for exploration in this growing field at the intersection of time and Jewish studies? The article identifies trends and discusses key works in the broad field of Jewish studies, while providing more specific surveys of particular developments in the fields of Second Temple Judaism, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and some medieval Jewish sources.

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Section: Calendars Communities and The Construction Of Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Avenues For Further Exploration In Ancient Judaism and Jewismentioning

confidence: 99%

The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Gribetz

Kaye

2019

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…The understanding of the content of any DSS manuscript could drastically change with the addition, removal, or reordering of fragments assigned to it (e.g., Ratzon and Ben-Dov, 2017;Yuditsky, 2017). Thus, much collective work has been invested in sorting out the fragments based primarily on visual resemblance and paleographic analysis of their scribal hands.…”

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confidence: 99%