Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments from the French Edition ix
4. Preface xi
5. Scriptural Abbreviations Cited xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Narrated Time
8. Introduction 15
9. 1. Ad tempus universale . . . A Time for Everyone? 19
10. 2. Where Does Time Come From? 29
11. 3. Where Is Time Going? 53
12. 4. God’s Time, Humanity’s Time 64
13. 5. The Time to Come 75
14. Part II. Time Counted Down, or the World Order
15. The Course of Eras and Calculations of Time 99
16. 6. Temporal Scansions 103
17. 7. Eschatological Scansions: Jubilees and Apocalypses 116
18. 8. Historiographical Scansions: Between Adam and the Present Time 119
19. 9. Mathematical Scansions: In What Era? 130
20. 10. Directed Time 135
21. 11. Exercises in Rabbinic Calculation 154
22. 12. Exercises in Rabbinic Thought 173
23. 13. A Fleeting Conclusion 201
24. Afterword to the English Translation 221
25. Appendix 225
26. Approximate Chronology 231
27. The Alphabet and Numerical Values of Letters 235
28. Notes 237
29. Select Bibliography 313
30. Index 355