Fractured Tablets Museum & Heritage Studies BIRMINGHAM

BIRMINGHAM

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies at King's College London and Director of the Lau China Institute

"Wide-ranging

with ourselves

Fractured Tablets Museum & Heritage Studies BIRMINGHAMA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss 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 persons life. Their vision of a Jewish