"Originally published in French in 2000 under the title La Clepsydre: Essai sur la pluralité des temps dans le judaïsme."

Acknowledgments from the French Edition; Preface; Scriptural Abbreviations Cited; Introduction; Part I. Narrated Time; 1. Ad tempus universale ... A Time for Everyone?; 2. Where Does Time Come From?; 3. Where Is Time Going?; 4. God's Time, Humanity's Time; 5. The Time to Come; Part II. Time Counted Down, or the World Order; The Course of Eras and Calculations of Time; 6. Temporal Scansions; 7. Eschatological Scansions: Jubilees and Apocalypses; 8. Historiographical Scansions: Between Adam and the Present Time; 9. Mathematical Scansions: In What Era?; 10. Directed Time. 11. Exercises in Rabbinic Calculation12. Exercises in Rabbinic Thought; 13. A Fleeting Conclusion; Afterword to the English Translation; Appendix; Approximate Chronology; The Alphabet and Numerical Values of Letters; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.