Cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible : Genesis to Kings / Ronald Hendel

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendel, Ronald S., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the archaeology of Ancient Israel

Cambridge elements. Elements in the archaeology of ancient Israel, 2754-3013

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Historiography.

Bible.

Collective memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Collective memory.

Collective memory--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Bible. Old Testament.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"The relationship between the biblical representations of the past and the history of the second and early first millennia BCE is best comprehended by the concept of cultural memory. This volume investigates the dynamics of cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible, with case studies on the ancestors, the Exodus, the conquest, and Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The texts create a monumental past by a mixture of memory, forgetting, revision, and re-actualization, motivated in various measures by religion, politics, the landscape, ethnic relationships, and cultural self-fashioning. The archaeology of the Levant illuminates the complicated pathways between history and biblical memory"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

What is cultural memory?

The ancestors : genealogies of self and others

The exodus : imagining the nation

The conquest : the landscape of memory

Solomon and the queen of Sheba : the politics of memory

Conclusion : the archaeology of memory

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 18, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Hendel, Ronald S. Cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible

ISBN:

9781009517614

1009517619

9781009517645

1009517643

OCLC:

1585500282

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392200

Access Restriction:

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