Revolutions in Time: The Invention of Era-Counting in the Seleucid Empire

Dec. 1, 2016, Boston College

Speakers: John Collins (Yale University) and Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)

Professors Collins and Kosmin discuss the clash between Seleucid imperial time-keeping and “Jewish” time, its possible relationship to the social and political conflicts that arose in Judea in the 2^nd c. BCE, as well as to other seemingly disparate contemporary developments, such as the rise of Jewish apocalyptic attitudes and writings.