Cultural memory in Biblical exegesis
By: edited by Pernille Carstens, Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch, Niels Peter Lemche
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts -- 17; Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts -- 17.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781617191657
Subjects: Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Bibel; Biblical teaching; Memory; Hermeneutics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Philip R. Davies; title: Old Testament as the art of remembering: landscape as paideia  -- Pernille Carstens; title: 'His place does not recognize him' (Job 7:10): reflections of non-inscribed memory in the Book of Job  -- Terje Stordalen; title: Cultural memory and the invention of Biblical Israel  -- John Van Seters; title: The Copenhagen School and cultural memory  -- Niels Peter Lemche; title: Extending the borders of cultural memory research?  -- Izaak de Hulster; title: The study of forgetting and the forgotten in ancient Israelite discourse/s: observations and test cases  -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Cultural amnesia  -- Niels Peter Lemche; title: Social and cultural memory in biblical exegesis: the quest for an adequate application  -- Sandra Hübenthal; title: Jane Addams, the devil baby of Chicago and the (classical) sociology of gendered memory in ancient biblical social worlds  -- David Chalcraft; title: Yahweh's wars in the Pentateuch and their function for the cultural memory of ancient Israel  -- Rüdiger Schmitt; title: The temple as a symbol of power in inner-biblical and post-biblical exegesis  -- Ida Fröhlich; title: Urim and Thummin  -- Dolores G. Kamrada; title: Cultural memory and family religion  -- Rüdiger Schmitt; title: The Torah as canon of masterpieces: remembering in archives  -- Pernille Casrtens; title: Was the Maccabean revolt the 'first religiously motivated war in history' (J. Assmann)? Exegetical, historical and hermeneutical contributions to a recent discussion  -- Johannes Schnocks; title: Memories of the veil: the covenantal contrasts in Christian-Jewish encounter -- Emmanuel Nathan.