TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kosmin,Paul J.
TI  - Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire /Paul J. Kosmin
SN  - 9780674989634
AV  - BF468 .T564 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Time perception
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Seleucids
KW  - Calendar
KW  - Imperialism and science
KW  - Ethnoscience
KW  - End of the world
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The Seleucid Era and its epoch --; A government of dating --; Dynastic time --; Total history 1: rupture and historiography --; Total history 2: periodization and apocalypse --; Altneuland: resistance and the resurrected state; 2; b
N2  - Time and Resistance in the Seleucid Empire investigates the relationship between the formal temporal structures projected by the Seleucid imperial court and the indigenous temporalities that responded to, undermined, and ultimately resisted these. The complex and competing temporalities of the Hellenistic East - a site of intense creativity in conceptualizing time - have either been unnoticed in scholarship or treated in isolation. Understanding the interactions of these time systems as a coherent phenomenon of cultural and political history will provide new contexts and integrated explanations for questions central to both the classical Mediterranean world - such as post-Alexander state formation and "Hellenization"--And Near Eastern and religious studies - such as textual canonization and the emergence of apocalyptic theologies. The book's first half explores, above all, the invention and institutionalization of the Seleucid Era year count. This was the world's first continuous, irreversible, accumulating, and transcendent count of historical duration. The second part examines the Seleucid subjects' intellectual, religious, and political responses to this radically new temporal order. These include, most significantly, the first emergence of apocalyptic eschatology, that is, total histories of the world, from beginning to predicted end.--
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