Fractured tablets : forgetfulness and fallibility in late ancient rabbinic culture / Mira Balberg.
"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 subj...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Memory and doubt
- Remembering forgetfulness
- Partial eclipse of the mind
- Rituals of recollection
- When teachings fly away
- Bad tidings, good tidings
- Conclusion : what Moses forgot.