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Book: If I Forget You, Jerusalem!

Chapter: 2. Emphatic Time in the Old Testament

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44793

Blurb:

Time is concept with more than one meaning. We have the precise reckoning of time, e.g., when does a train leave or arrive, and we have different idea about the time as the right moment of something. The second use is also a narrative phenomenon when time is used to structure a narrative. We find ideas about time in the Bible where we also find examples of the importance of imagined time to create history.

Chapter Contributors

  • Niels Peter Lemche (npl@teol.ku.dk - nplemche) 'University of Copenhagen '