Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
Social Memory and Imagination
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 August 2013
- ISBN 9780199664160
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages542 pages
- Size 236x167x38 mm
- Weight 962 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international scholars.
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Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international scholars. The presumed social settings when most of the books comprising the TANAK had come into existence and were being read together as an emerging authoritative corpus are the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods. It is in this context then that we can profitably explore the symbolic values and networks of meanings that biblical figures encoded for the religious community of Israel in these eras, drawing on our limited knowledge of issues and life in Yehud and Judean diasporic communities in these periods. This is the first period when scholars can plausibly try to understand the mnemonic effects of these texts, which were understood to encode the collective experience members of the community, providing them with a common identity by offering a sense of shared past while defining aspirations for the future. The introduction and the concluding essay focus on theoretical and methodological issues that arise from analysing the Hebrew Bible in the framework of memory studies. The individual character studies, as a group, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the potentialities of using a social memory approach in Biblical Studies, with the essay on Cyrus written by a classicist, in order to provide an enriching perspective on how one biblical figure was construed in Greek social memory, for comparative purposes.
This collection can be recommended as a good way for those new to social memory to see how the theory works, while those who already know something about the subject can learn from the variety of approaches and modes of analsysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I: Remembering Ancestors and Founders
The Memory of Abraham in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
Remembering Jacob in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Era
Moses, the Royal Lawgiver
Exploring The Memory of Aaron in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period Yehud
Remembering Joshua
II: Remembering Kings (Israelite and Foreigners)
Saul, Hero and Villain
David in Israelite Social Memory
Solomon as Cultural Memory
Between Realpolitiker and Hero of Faith: Memories on Hezekiah in Biblical Traditions and Beyond
The Memory of Sennacherib in Late Persian Yehud
Rehabilitating Manasseh: Remembering King Manasseh in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods
Remembering Josiah
Nebuchadnezzar: History, Memory and Myth-Making in the Persian Period
Now You See Him, Now You Don t: Nabonidus in Jewish Memory
Remembering Cyrus the Persian: Exploring Monarchy and Freedom in Classical Greece
III: Remembering Female Characters
Tamar, from Victim to Mother of a Dynasty
Ruth: The Art of Memorising Past Enemies, Ambiguously
Why Remember Jezebela
IV: Remembering Prophets
Exploring the Memory of Moses 'The Prophet' In Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
Isaiah a Memorable Prophet: Why Was Isaiah so Memorable in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Periodsa Some Observations
Remembering Jeremiah in the Persian Period
The Memory of Ezekiel in Postmonarchic Yehud
V: Additional and Complementary Methodological Considerations
Reflections on a Cognitive Theory of Culture and a Theory of Formalised Language for Late Biblical Studies
