The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham / / ed. by Pernille Carstens, Niels Peter Lemche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baltzer, Klaus ,; Baltzer, Klaus,; Carstens, Pernille,; Davies, Philip R.,; Davies, Philip,; Ego, Beate ,; Ego, Beate,; Lemche, Niels Peter,; Perlt, Michael ,; Römer, Thomas,; Thompson, Thomas ,; Thompson, Thomas L.,; Zvi, Ehud Ben,
• HerausgeberIn: Carstens, Pernille,; Lemche, Niels Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)

This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained. It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of memory, stories of Abraham served as guidelines for identity-formation and authoritative illustration of behaviour for the emerging Jewish communities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- From Moses to Abraham: Jewish Identities in the Second Temple Period -- THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM IN LATE PERSIAN/EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD YEHUD -- REMEMBERING ABRAHAM IN PSEUDO-PHILO’S LIBER ANTIQUITATUM BIBLICARUM -- ABRAHAM IN THE PATRIARCHAL TEXTS OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND THE RECEPTION OF THIS TRADITION IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH -- ABRAHAM AND THE ‘LAW AND THE PROPHETS’ -- MEMORIES OF RETURN AND THE HISTORICITY OF THE ‘POST-EXILIC’ PERIOD -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- Index of Biblical References