LEADER 03181nam 22004695 450 001 9910682581203321 005 20230529094047.0 010 $a9780520391888 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520391888 035 $a(CKB)26385065900041 035 $a(DE-B1597)642396 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520391888 035 $a(NjHacI)9926385065900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926385065900041 100 $a20230529h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFractured Tablets $eForgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture /$fMira Balberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 311 $a9780520391864 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Memory and Doubt -- $t2 Remembering Forgetfulness -- $t3 Partial Eclipse of the Mind -- $t4 Rituals of Recollection -- $t5 When Teachings Fly Away -- $t6 Bad Tidings, Good Tidings -- $tConclusion: What Moses Forgot -- $tBibliography -- $tSubject Index -- $tSource Index 330 $aA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press?s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 examines 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 ways in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own roles 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. 606 $aMemory$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 606 $aRabbinical literature$xCriticism and interpretation 606 $aRELIGION / Judaism / History$2bisacsh 615 0$aMemory$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 615 0$aRabbinical literature$xCriticism and interpretation. 615 7$aRELIGION / Judaism / History. 676 $a296.109 700 $aBalberg$b Mira, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01358046 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 912 $a9910682581203321 996 $aFractured Tablets$93365957 997 $aUNINA