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Chapter 15 - The Life Cycle and the Annual Cycle in Genizah Society

from Part II - Social and Institutional History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

By
Miriam Frenkel
Edited by
Phillip I. Lieberman
Phillip I. Lieberman
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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The mind relies on time to make sense of the flow of experience. Human societies develop different ways of creating and marking time. Although systems for reckoning time in any given society are established by people, they are also based on the temporal sequences of nature and on the inner life of the individual. This chapter deals with two systems of time used in the society of the Jews of the medieval Islamic world whose material remains are preserved in the Genizah. It starts with the cycle of life – from an individual’s birth all the way to death. Then, it proceeds to discuss the community’s rhythms of time and the way time structured the annual cycle.

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The Cambridge History of Judaism , pp. 514 - 539
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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