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Fractured tablets : forgetfulness and fallibility in late ancient rabbinic culture
Balberg, Mira, 1978-Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]"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 to its commandments as governing every single 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 very preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting of tasks, forgetting of facts, forgetting of texts, and--most broadly--forgetting the Torah altogether. In Fractured Tablets, Mira Balberg studies 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 manners in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own role 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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Iudæa seu Palæstina ob sacratissima redemtoris vestigia hodie dicta Terra Sancta : prout olim in duodecim tribus divisa separatis ab invicem regnis Iuda et Israel expressis insuper VI ultimi temporis ejusdem terrae provinciis
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-17241707Map of Palestine divided among the 12 Tribes, drawn by Homann after Guillaume Sanson. The shoreline runs from Sidon to Rinocorura. Title cartouche ...
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Hierosolyma, clarissima totius orientis ciuitas, Iudaee metropolis
Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590 and Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-16221572On left of sheet is imaginary topographic description of the ancient city at the time of Jesus Christ; on right side is topographical description o...
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Iudaea seu Palaestina ob sacratissima redemtoris vestigia hodie dicta Terra Sancta
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 and Sanson, Guillaume1716collecta ex tabulis Guil. Sansonii Christissimi Regis Geogr. a Ioh. Baptista Homanno. Relief shown pictorially. Latitudinal and longitudinal lines....
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