Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis / / ed. by Niels Peter Lemche, Pernille Carstens, Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Carstens, Pernille,; Chalcraft, David J.,; Chalcraft, David,; Davies, Philip R.,; Davies, Philip,; Fröhlich, Ida,; Hulster, Izaak de,; Hulster, Izaak,; Hübenthal, Sandra,; Kamrada, Dolores G.,; Kamrada, Dolores,; Lemche, Niels Peter,; Nathan, Emmanuel,; Schmitt, Rüdiger,; Schnocks, Johannes,; Seters, John Van,; Stordalen, Terje,; Van Seters, John,; Zvi, Ehud Ben,
• HerausgeberIn: Carstens, Pernille,; Hasselbalch, Trine Bjørnung,; Lemche, Niels Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recollection of what has been learned and retained, normally treated as “the cultural heritage”. The purpose of this book, the first product of the research program Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis, is to study how memory is inscribed and embodied in biblical culture and its surrounding area. The essays in this volume seek to open new investigations into cultural memory in biblical and cognate studies, and to include a plethora of methods and perspectives such as the relationship between cultural memory approach and post-colonialism, globalism and epistemology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- I: The Old Testament and Cultural Memory -- Old Testament as the Art of Remembering: Landscape as Paideia -- ‘His Place Does not Recognize Him’ (Job 7:10): Reflections of Non-Inscribed Memory in the Book of Job -- Cultural Memory and the Invention of Biblical Israel -- The Copenhagen School and Cultural Memory -- Extending the Borders of Cultural Memory Research? -- II: Old Testament and Forgetting -- The Study of Forgetting and the Forgotten in Ancient Israelite Discourse/s: Observations and Test Cases -- Cultural Amnesia -- III: Methodological and Terminological Issues -- Social and Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis: The Quest for an Adequate Application -- Jane Addams, the Devil Baby of Chicago and the (Classical) Sociology of Gendered Memory in Ancient Biblical Social Worlds -- IV: Cultural Memory Perspectives Applied on the Old Testament -- Yahweh’s Wars in the Pentateuch and their Function for the Cultural Memory of Ancient Israel -- The Temple as a Symbol of Power in Inner-biblical and Postbiblical Exegesis -- Urim and Thummin -- Cultural Memory and Family Religion -- The Torah as Canon of Masterpieces: Remembering in Archives -- V: Cultural Memory Perspectives Applied Beyond the Old Testament -- Was the Maccabean Revolt the ‘First Religiously Motivated War in History’ (J. Assmann)? Exegetical, Historical and Hermeneutical Contributions to a Recent Discussion -- Memories of the Veil: The Covenantal Contrasts in Christian- Jewish Encounter -- Index of Authors -- Index of References