Jodi Magness courtesy of the New York Review of Books
A portion of a mosaic excavated between 2013 and 2015 from the Huqoq synagogue, likely depicting the resistance of the Maccabees to the Seleucid king Antiochus IV in the mid-second century BCE, Lower Galilee, Israel; photograph by Jim Haberman
The Invention of Time
“Calendars are the bones of history,” writes Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, in his opening lines of a New York Review of Books review of Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul Kosmin, a work that Bowersock describes as “a magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time in the ancient Mediterranean world.”
Read the full review here.
