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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..
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.
Their vision of a Jewish subject who must keep constant mental track of multiple obligations and teachings led them to be preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting tasks, forgetting facts, forgetting texts, and--most broadly--forgetting the Torah altogether.
The rabbis who shaped Judaism in Late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and its commandments as governing every aspect of a person\'s life.
This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early Rabbinic literature.
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press\'s Open Access publishing program
