Proceedings of a conference held at St. Mary’s University in Notre Dame, Indiana (2017), this volume presents a wide-ranging exploration of Time as experienced and contemplated. Included are offerings on ancient Mesopotamian archaeology, literature and religion, Biblical texts and archaeology, Chinese literature and philosophy, and Islamic law.

INTRODUCTION ;  Introduction and Editor's Time Constrained Thoughts – JoAnn Scurlock ;  The Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society at 100 – Wayne Pitard ; 
TIME AS A CONCEPT ;  From Beyond Time and Space: Master Zhuang's Cosmogony and Modern Physics – Amelia Ying Qin ; 
MEASURING TIME ;  A 360-Day Administrative Year in Ancient Israel: Judahite Desk Calendars and the Flood Account – Jonathan Ben-Dov ;  The Gifts of Mihragān: Muslim Governors and Gift Giving During Non– Muslim Holidays – Robert Haug ;  Feasting in the Garden of God: Ramat Rahel and the Origins of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – JoAnn Scurlock ; 
TRAVELS THROUGH TIME ;  Time, Travel and the Homesick Hero – Louise Pryke ;  The Older the Better: The Critical Conception of Lateness in Song China – Xiaoshan Yang ;  The Evolution of Terracottas from the First to the Second Half of the II Millennium B.C. – Laura Battini ;  What Difference Does Time Make?  The Deuteronomic Portrayal of the Wilderness Period – Jeffrey Stackert ;  Through a Glass, Darkly? Sea-Water, Bequests, and the Textualism-Tradition Tension in Islamic Law – Suheil Laher ; 
WRINKLES IN TIME Converging Lines of Evidence: Archaeological and Chronological Data Supporting a 792 B.C. Date for the Iron IIA-IIB Transition in the Southern Levant – Jeffrey Hudon ;  The Hyksos and the Exodus: Two 400-Year Stories – Peter Feinman ;  Chinese Sovereign Revolution: Temporal Acceleration Toward A Better Future – Maria Adele Carrai ;  Nippur's Galileo Problem – JoAnn Scurlock