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Zusatztext P. provides a lively and up-to-date engagement with the episteme within which Hebrew scribes existed, and, moreover, challenges us to consider the realities of the persistence and the memory of places in the landscape that Hebrew scribes may have known themselves or about which they had no experience. Informationen zum Autor Daniel D. Pioske is Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University. His first book, David's Jerusalem: Between Memory and History, was published in 2015. Klappentext Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about a past that consumed so many of their writings? This book compares biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence from the era in which these stories are set in order to reveal how the past was preserved, transformed, or forgotten within biblicalstorytelling. Zusammenfassung Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about a past that consumed so many of their writings? Daniel D. Pioske attempts to answer this question by studying the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a time that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. This book is comprised of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence from the era in which these stories are set. Pioske examines the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and the past represented within the biblical narrative. He discovers that the biblical scribes drew the knowledge of the past that they used to create their prose narratives from memory and word of mouth, rather than from a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were primarily wed to the faculty of memory. Memory in a Time of Prose reveals how the past was preserved, transformed, or forgotten in the ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: Memory in a Time of Prose 2. Hebrew Prose and Stories of an Early Iron Age Past: Historical and Epistemological Considerations 3. Gath of the Philistines: The Resilience of a Remembered Past 4. David on the Desert Fringe: The Entanglements of Memory 5. A Past No Longer Remembered: The Hebrew Bible and the Question of Absence 6. Conclusion Bibliography ...
