Collective memory and collective identity : Deuteronomy and the deuteronomistic history in their context / edited by Johannes Unsok Ro and Diana Edelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ro, Johannes Un-Sok, editor.

Edelman, Diana, editor.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 534.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; volume 534

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Deuteronomy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism).

Collective memory.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

xiv, 466 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2021]

Summary:

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Contents:

Intro

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

PDF

ePub

ISBN:

9783110715088

3110715082

OCLC:

1241661278

Publisher Number:

9783110715088