The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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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

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