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Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international scholars.
Sommario
- Introduction
- I: Remembering Ancestors and Founders
- 1: Ehud Ben Zvi: The Memory of Abraham in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
- 2: Raik Heckl: Remembering Jacob in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Era
- 3: Thomas C. Römer: Moses, the Royal Lawgiver
- 4: Philippe Guillaume: Exploring The Memory of Aaron in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period Yehud
- 5: Axel Knauf: Remembering Joshua
- II: Remembering Kings (Israelite and Foreigners)
- 6: Philip R. Davies: Saul, Hero and Villain
- 7: Diana V. Edelman: David in Israelite Social Memory
- 8: Niels-Peter Lemche: Solomon as Cultural Memory
- 9: Bob Becking: Between Realpolitiker and Hero of Faith: Memories on Hezekiah in Biblical Traditions and Beyond
- 10: Russell Hobson: The Memory of Sennacherib in Late Persian Yehud
- 11: Lowell Handy: Rehabilitating Manasseh: Remembering King Manasseh in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods
- 12: Joseph Blenkinsopp: Remembering Josiah
- 13: Jonathan Stökl: Nebuchadnezzar: History, Memory and Myth-Making in the Persian Period
- 14: Carol Newsom: Now You See Him, Now You Don t: Nabonidus in Jewish Memory
- 15: Lynette Mitchell: Remembering Cyrus the Persian: Exploring Monarchy and Freedom in Classical Greece
- III: Remembering Female Characters
- 16: Yairah Amit: Tamar, from Victim to Mother of a Dynasty
- 17: Athalya Brenner: Ruth: The Art of Memorising Past Enemies, Ambiguously
- 18: Why Remember Jezebela
- IV: Remembering Prophets
- 19: Ehud Ben Zvi: Exploring the Memory of Moses 'The Prophet' In Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
- 20: Isaiah a Memorable Prophet: Why Was Isaiah so Memorable in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Periodsa Some Observations
- 21: Mark Leuchter: Remembering Jeremiah in the Persian Period
- 22: Christophe Nihan: The Memory of Ezekiel in Postmonarchic Yehud
- V: Additional and Complementary Methodological Considerations
- 23: David H. Aaron: Reflections on a Cognitive Theory of Culture and a Theory of Formalised Language for Late Biblical Studies
Info autore
Diana V. Edelman is an independent scholar based in the UK. Her work focuses on the history, archaeology, literature and social memory of the ancient Southern Levant, especially in the Iron Age and the Persian period.
Ehud Ben Zvi is a professor in History & Classics at the University of Alberta. He has authored or (co)-edited more than twenty volumes and written numerous essays primarily on ancient Israel, its intellectual history, social memory, historiography, and prophetic books.
Riassunto
Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international scholars. The presumed social settings when most of the books comprising the TANAK had come into existence and were being read together as an emerging authoritative corpus are the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods. It is in this context then that we can profitably explore the symbolic values and networks of meanings that biblical figures encoded for the religious community of Israel in these eras, drawing on our limited knowledge of issues and life in Yehud and Judean diasporic communities in these periods. This is the first period when scholars can plausibly try to understand the mnemonic effects of these texts, which were understood to encode the collective experience members of the community, providing them with a common identity by offering a sense of shared past while defining aspirations for the future. The introduction and the concluding essay focus on theoretical and methodological issues that arise from analysing the Hebrew Bible in the framework of memory studies. The individual character studies, as a group, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the potentialities of using a social memory approach in Biblical Studies, with the essay on Cyrus written by a classicist, in order to provide an enriching perspective on how one biblical figure was construed in Greek social memory, for comparative purposes.
Testo aggiuntivo
This collection can be recommended as a good way for those new to social memory to see how the theory works, while those who already know something about the subject can learn from the variety of approaches and modes of analsysis.
