Time in Ancient Historiography

Momigliano, Arnaldo

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“…Barr used the same historical and comparative linguistic and philological methodologies employed by his predecessors to argue against what he considered to be antiquated and inaccurate conclusions about the Bible's awareness and use of temporality and to challenge the scholarly methodologies in theology that led to such conclusions in the first place. A few years later, Arnaldo Momigliano (1966) extended Barr's conclusions to the field of ancient historiography, arguing that biblical texts as well as pre-classical Greek sources not only operated with conceptions of time in general but also with notions of historical time in particular (on which see also Bickerman 1968 and the earlier work of Zuckermann 1882;1974;Frank 1956). It is clear even to 'the untutored eye of the non-theological reader' (1966: 1), Momigliano insisted, that Genesis 1 begins with a story about the world's creation that is chronological and thus built upon a particular conception of past, present and future.…”

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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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“…The comparative study of revolutions lato sensu could be traced back to Thucydides, given that the Athenian historian suggested that the uprisings or civil wars in the cities (στάσεις) were bound to take place again in the future and it would therefore make sense to compare them (Momigliano, 1966: 11–12). In the modern world, there have been comparisons between, first, ancient and modern revolutions (as did the abbé de Vertot and the viscount de Chateaubriand, among others, at the beginning and at the end of the 18th century, respectively) and later between various modern revolutions.…”

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Waving the historian’s magic wand: Temporal comparisons and analogies in the writing of history

Fernández-Sebastián

2020

Time & Society

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The main purpose of this article is to raise some questions about temporal comparisons and analogies in the writing of history. The article has four parts. The first one shows that historical discipline, conceptual history and language itself can scarcely be conceived of in the absence of comparisons, implicit or explicit, between events, processes and individuals. The second section provides a few samples of the sources of inspiration of some recurrent temporal parallelisms in the Western tradition. The third identifies two key moments in the history of modern Europe when temporal analogies assumed particular importance. These two periods – two turns of the century (16th century and 18th century) – correspond to transitional phases between successive stages in the development of Western historical consciousness. The article ends with a brief reflection on the usefulness and limits of temporal analogies in the writing of history.

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“…A "eternidade", isto posto, é a verdadeira contrapartida do "tempo". Arnaldo Momigliano e Reinhart Koselleck concordam com esta ideia (Momigliano, 1966;Koselleck, 2000). Segundo Hubert Cancik, a análise que Friedrich Nietzsche faz da antiguidade clássica junto aos estudos de Karl Löwith, Gershom Scholem e Jacob Taubes são os grandes responsáveis por este mal entendido (Cf.…”

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The form of eternity

Leite

2020

Rev. Archai

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According to the mythical-religious literature time is determined by the eternal nature of divinity or origin of all things. From this adagio, theological literature is provoked and studies on the eternal nature of divinity suggest that if the universe was created the image of its creator the first must also be eternal. Therefore the question arises: how to shape that which by nature is formless, infinite, namely eternity? To answer this question the following paper develops a brief history about the Judeo-Christian tradition on the problem of time and its relationship with eternity and also tries to prepare at the end one logical answer to the question about the form of eternity.

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Time in Ancient Historiography

Cited by 224 publications

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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Waving the historian’s magic wand: Temporal comparisons and analogies in the writing of history

The form of eternity

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