Memory in a time of prose : studies in epistemology, Hebrew scribalism, and the biblical past

Memory in a time of prose : studies in epistemology, Hebrew scribalism, and the biblical past / Daniel D. Pioske.

Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about a past that consumed so many of their writings? This book compares biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and histori...

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Main Author: Pioske, Daniel D., 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
David, > King of Israel.
David, > King of Israel
Bible. > Old Testament > Historiography.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament > Antiquities.
Bible. > Old Testament
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
RELIGION > Judaism > Sacred Writings.
Antiquities
Historiography
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Memory in a time of prose
  • Hebrew prose and stories of an early iron age past: historical and epistemological considerations
  • Gath of the Philistines: the resilience of a remembered past
  • David on the desert fringe: the entanglements of memory
  • A past no longer remembered:
  • The Hebrew Bible and the question of absence.

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