Collective Memory and Collective Identity : : Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context / / ed. by Johannes Unsok Ro, Diana Edelman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Buster, Aubrey E.,; Chau, Kevin,; Dubovský, Peter,; Edelman, Diana,; Edenburg, Cynthia,; Gilmour, Rachelle,; Hendel, Ronald,; Jürgensen, Roberto,; Levin, Yigal,; Markl, Dominik,; Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz,; Person, Raymond F.,; Rüpke, Jörg,; Sano, Yoshinori,; Unsok Ro, Johannes,; Weingart, Kristin,; Zwickel, Wolfgang,
• HerausgeberIn: Edelman, Diana,; Unsok Ro, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 534
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 466 p.)

“Collective memory” has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40−50 years in particular. It and "collective identity" have become important issues within Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies; the role collective memory plays in shaping collective identity links the two organically. Research to date on memory within biblical studies broadly falls under four approaches: 1) lexical studies; 2) discussions of biblical historiography in which memory is considered a contributing element; 3) topical explorations for which memory is an organizing concept; and 4) memory and transmission studies.The sixteen contributors to this volume provide detailed investigations of the contours of collective memory and collective identity that have crystallized in Martin Noth's "Deuteronomistic History" (Deut-2 Kgs). Together, they yield diverse profiles of collective memory and collective identity that draw comparatively on biblical, ancient Near eastern, and classical Greek material, employing one of more of the four common approaches. This is the first volume devoted to applying memory studies to the "Deuteronomistic History."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Memory and History: An Introduction -- Part I The Use of Memory to Reinforce Identity Boundaries -- Looking Back in Order to Move Forward: The Use of -- Deuteronomy 1:22–33 in Joshua 2 -- Using the Past to Mold New Attitudes in the Present and -- Future: Examples from the Books of Deuteronomy, Judges (17–18), and 1 Samuel -- (28) -- Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged -- Other -- Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the -- Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy -- The Efficacy of Moses’s Prophecies and the Scope of -- Deuteronomistic Historiography -- Remembering Exodus: A Development of Formulas Containing -- the Verbs עלה and יצא in the Deuteronomistic History -- The Poetry of Rock, Rain, and Remembrance in the Song of -- Moses -- Part II Literary Memory that Preserves and Passes on Selected Events or Details of the Past -- Self-Referential Phrases in Deuteronomy: A Reassessment -- Based on Recent Studies Concerning Scribal Performance and Memory -- The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of -- Samuel -- The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of -- Canaan -- Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text -- Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite -- and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the -- Epigraphic Record -- Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient -- Mediterranean -- Why Was Biblical History Written during the Persian Period? -- Persuasive Aspects of Biblical Historiography and Its Political Context, or -- Historiography as an Anti-Mnemonic Literary Genre -- Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io’s Journey: The -- Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound -- Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman -- Republic -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Citations