Remembering Biblical figures in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods : social memory and imagination

Remembering Biblical figures in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods : social memory and imagination / edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi.

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 grou...

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Other Authors: Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954- (Editor), Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Bible. > Hebrew > Biography.
Bible. > Hebrew > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible
Collective memory.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
RELIGION > Judaism > Sacred Writings.
Collective memory
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Remembering ancestors and founders. The memory of Abraham in late Persian/early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • Remembering Jacob in the late Persian early Hellenistic era / Raik Heckl
  • Moses, the royal lawgiver / Thomas C. Römer
  • Exploring the memory of Aaron in late Persian/early Hellenistic period Yehud / Philippe Guillaume
  • Remembering Joshua / E. Axel Knauf
  • Part II. Remembering kings (Israelite and foreigners). Saul, hero and villain / Philip R. Davies
  • David in Israelite social memory / Diana V. Edelman
  • Solomon as cultural memory / Niels Peter Lemche
  • Between realpolitiker and hero of faith: memories of Hezekiah in biblical traditions and beyond / Bob Becking
  • The memory of Sennacherib in late Persian Yehud / Russell Hobson
  • Rehabilitating Manasseh: remembering King Manasseh in the Persian and Hellenistic periods / Lowell K. Handy
  • Remembering Josiah / Joseph Blenkinsopp
  • Nebuchadnezzar: history, memory, and myth-making in the Persian period / Jonathan Stökl
  • New you see him, now you don't: Nabonidus in Jewish memory / Carol A. Newsom
  • Remembering Cyrus the Persian: exploring monarchy and freedom in classical Greece / Lynette Mitchell
  • Part III. Remembering female characters. Tamar, from victim to mother of a dynasty / Yairah Amit
  • Ruth: the art of memorizing past enemies, ambiguously / Athalya Brenner
  • Why remember Jezebel? / Carey Walsh
  • Part IV. Remembering prophets. Exploring the memory of Moses 'the prophet' in late Persian/early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • Isaiah, a memorable prophet: why was Isaiah so memorable in the late Persian/early Hellenistic periods? : some observations / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • Remembering Jeremiah in the Persian period / Mark Leuchter
  • The memory of Ezekiel in postmonarchic Yehud / Christophe Nihan
  • Part V. Additional and complementary methodological considerations. Reflections on a cognitive theory of culture and a theory of formalized language for late biblical studies / David H. Aaron.

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