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Fractured Tablets
- Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture
Engelsk Paperback
Fractured Tablets
- Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture
Engelsk Paperback

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.  This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and its commandments as governing every aspect of a person’s life. Their vision of a Jewish subject who must keep constant mental track of multiple obligations and teachings led them to be preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting tasks, forgetting facts, forgetting texts, and—most broadly—forgetting the Torah altogether. In Fractured Tablets, Mira Balberg examines the ways in which the early rabbis approached and delineated the possibility of forgetfulness in practice and study and the solutions and responses they conjured for forgetfulness, along with the ways in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own roles as religious experts. In the process, Balberg shows that the rabbis’ intense preoccupation with the prospect of forgetfulness was a meaningful ideological choice, with profound implications for our understanding of Judaism in late antiquity.  
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
300
ISBN-13:
9780520391864
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520391861
Udg. Dato:
25 apr 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
25 apr 2023
Forfatter(e):
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