ON TH BIBLE AND THE NOTIONS OF SPACE AND TIME - AN ESSAY ABOUT THE USES OF CATEGORIES IN ASHKENAZI WORLD, FROM THE MIDDLE-AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD

The Long History of the Jews in the West shows that the social constru ction of temporality goes through an operating spatial appropriation. This phenomenon turns out when one confronts different kinds of histor ical material, Jewish and non-Jewish, religious with legal texts. This allows to bring together, within a same history, the admitted facts a nd their representations. To use the Bible as a source that informs an d shapes attitudes in later Jewish societies became inscrutable for it s sacred character and disciplinary contentions. This paper considers at first the interlacing of temporal and spatial order shaping the ''J ewish time'' in traditional communities; then it attempts to clear up some of the traps disseminated within theological perspectives in Bibl ical studies.