Concepts of periodization and causality in Talmudic literature

Gafni, Isaiah M.

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“…Goldberg, for example, refused to resolve the matter of pre-modern Judaism having history or memory, instead concluding that she finds 'an awareness of history and the contrivance of memory'; depending on the needs of a particular moment, either may be engaged (2016: 210). Gafni (1996; mediated between both sides of the debate, arguing that while classical rabbis were aware of historically situated legal decisions, history was not a main focus of their work. He investigated explicit comments about the study of the past in rabbinic sources (the rabbis famously declared, seemingly dismissively, that 'what happened, happened!…”

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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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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Gribetz

Kaye

2019

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…-Numbers Rabbah 1.2 -and further sources are cited byJacobson 1983: 152-66. 18 -Goldhill 2016; see alsoGafni 1996;Yerushalmi 1982. For the interaction of communities in the later antique seeEshleman 2012;Sandwell 2007. …”

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Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death

Goldhill

2015

Eugesta

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“Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death” looks at two crucial issues of late antique poetics and the representation of gender through the Dionysiaca of Nonnus. First, it discusses how Nonnus constructs a narrative which links mythic stories in a willfully confused chronological patterning, which allows events in the future of narrative time to bear on the current story-telling. This is explored both in its aesthetics of exemplarity and in its theological understanding of narrative time. “Preposterous” is understood thus in its etymological sense of the confusion of the “pre-” and the “post-”. Second, this article explores through such a model of poetics how Nonnus represents a bizarre and un-paralleled scene of necrophiliac desire on the battle-field. On the one hand, this disturbing scene of corrupt erotic desire in action is expressed through the model of Achilles and Penthesileia (an event far in the future for the time of the Dionysiaca); on the other hand, it utilizes a strange narrative technique of the narrator describing the scene, followed immediately by the desire-stuck soldier also describing the scene from another perspective. The article explores how this doubled representation opens a question – a question that goes to the heart of late antique poetics – of what it means to repeat, to paraphrase, to rehearse the inherited language of classical, epic sexual desire in the new world of the Christian empire.

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History, Exile, and Counter‐History

Raz‐Krakotzkin¹

2014

A Companion to Global Historical Thought

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Concepts of periodization and causality in Talmudic literature

Cited by 20 publications

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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death

History, Exile, and Counter‐History

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