This group of intrepid cartographers seeks to piece together a historical atlas—an atlas not of territory but of time.

The religious literatures of Late Antiquity all have implicit striking topologies of time. We will collaborate to chart out the continuities and ruptures across the different traditions’ maps of time. In the course of this venture we will explore the intersection between various fields like comparative religion, Quranic exegesis, classical antiquity, Talmud, Midrash, and anthropology. We are interested in tracing the mutual connections and influences of these chronotopes, both in a synchronic and in a diachronic manner. Through a close intertextual reading of source texts and critical surveys of secondary literature we will follow the transitions and adaptations of perceptions and concepts of time and space between cultures and religions.

Towards the end of the academic year, we strive to create a panel at an academic conference in the field of Late Antiquity or hold a seminar that will be accompanied by the publication of a collection of articles, which will be based on our joint research process.

For more information, please contact: sarah.eckinger@mail.huji.ac.il / anita.shtrubel@mail.huji.ac.il