This collection of articles investigates notions of time in ancient Jewish and Christian Bible interpretation, a genre which is not intrinsically connected with the calculation of time, but enters the debates about time as part of a broader negotiation of religious boundaries. An international team of researchers uncovers the dynamics of competing notions of time and the cultural embeddedness of each.
The following debates about diverging notions of time are discussed as test cases of constructing religious and exegetical boundaries: eternity of time as wholly other, conceived by Plato and reinterpreted by the Jewish exegete Philo; day one of the creation between ideal and measurable time, interpreted differently by Philo and Philoponus, a Christian exegete; cyclical time in the world conflagration as debated among pagan philosophers, Hellenistic and rabbinic Jews as well as Christian exegetes; the contrast between God’s timelessness and human embeddedness in measurable time as seen by Platonic and Christian authors; and finally, the conflict between messianic and historical time, which prompted lively encounters not only between Jews and Christians, but also among the various members of each group.
eBook published on:March 30, 2026eBook ISBN:9783112225981Paperback published on:March 30, 2026Paperback ISBN:9783112225974Front matter:5Main content:134
Frontmatter
IContents
VIntroduction
1Some Aspects of Time and Eternity in Philo’s De aeternitate mundi
7God’s Clock and the First Hours of the World
19The Conflagration of the World in Philo, Josephus and Rabbi Abbahu
53The Concept of Time in Origen
79The Time and Context of the Consolation Prophecies
93Index of Biblical References
Index of Rabbinic Sources
Index of Greco-Roman Sources
General Index (in selection)
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