Fixity and Time in Talmudic Law and Legal Language

Kaye, Lynn

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“…Along with other recent scholarship on temporality, our focus is thematic rather than predominantly lexical. We are interested in an expansive category of temporality that includes material objects and other cultural productions and varieties of conceptual creativity related to time that are not named 'time', such as concepts of permanence (Kaye 2015), memory and forgetting, duration, and the rest of the temporal themes around which we build this article.…”

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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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Keepers of the Vineyard and the Fence around the Torah: The Vineyard Metaphor in Rabbinic Literature

Teugels

2022

J. Study Jud.

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Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the Torah. The conceptual metaphor of the vineyard includes such aspects as the fence, the vines and the wine. The generic metaphor something precious is a cultivated piece of land enables us to include related conceptual fields, such as a field of wheat, or another cultivated piece of land. By means of the principle of the “creation of similarity,” the Torah and Israel are linked in the rabbinic cultural world, using the notion of preciousness, segulah. The metaphor of the vineyard not only reflects, but also induces the similarity: conceived as vineyards, Israel and the Torah become precious in the minds of the people using and hearing or reading the metaphorical texts.

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Fixity and Time in Talmudic Law and Legal Language

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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Keepers of the Vineyard and the Fence around the Torah: The Vineyard Metaphor in Rabbinic Literature

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