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

“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 pl...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 534
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 466 p.)
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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