Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism
by
Sylvie Anne Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and...