The memoirs of God
Subtitle: history, memory, and the experience of the divine in ancient Israel
By: Mark S. Smith.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Number of pages: 187
Description: This insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all this are the ways in which ancient Israel was shaped by the monarchy, the Babylonian exile, and the dispersions of Judeans and the ways in which Israel conceptualized and interacted with the divine{u2014}Yahweh as well as other deities.