Time and Process in Ancient Judaism »

Stern (Jewish studies, U. of London) searched all the ancient Jewish sources, looking for indications that time was linear or cyclical or both, was absolute or relative, whether saving time was ethical and wasting it not, and so forth. He found no indications of any of it, and concluded that the people had no concept of time at all. Instead, he argues, they understood and described reality in terms of an infinity of concrete, individual processes. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR