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

Contributor(s): Ro, Johannes Un-Sok [editor.] | Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft: 534.Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiv, 466 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783110715088; 3110715082Subject(s): Bible. Deuteronomy -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism) | Collective memory | Group identityLOC classification: BS1275.52 | .C65 2021Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Memory and History: An Introduction / Johannes Unsok Ro -- 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 / Kristin Weingart -- 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) / Diana Edelman -- Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other / Cynthia Edenburg -- Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy / Yigal Levin -- The efficacy of Moses's prophecies and the scope of Deuteronomistic historiography / Dominik Markl -- Remembering Exodus: a development of Formulas containing the verbs [ʻalah] and [yatsa] in the Deuteronomistic history / Peter Dubovský -- The poetry of rock, rain, and remembrance in the Song of Moses / Kevin Chau --
Part II Literary Memory that Preserves and Passes on Selected Events or Details of the Past -- Self-referential Phrases in Deuteronomy: a Reassessment Based on Recent Studies Concerning Scribal Performance and Memory / Raymond F. Person, Jr. -- The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of Samuel / Rachelle Gilmour -- The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan / Ronald Hendel -- Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text / Wolfgang Zwickel -- Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the Epigraphic Record / Roberto Jürgensen -- Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean / Aubrey E. Buster -- 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 / Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò --
Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io's Journey: The Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound / Yoshinori Sani -- Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman Republic / Jörg Rüpke.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Memory and History: An Introduction / Johannes Unsok Ro -- 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 / Kristin Weingart -- 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) / Diana Edelman -- Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other / Cynthia Edenburg -- Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy / Yigal Levin -- The efficacy of Moses's prophecies and the scope of Deuteronomistic historiography / Dominik Markl -- Remembering Exodus: a development of Formulas containing the verbs [ʻalah] and [yatsa] in the Deuteronomistic history / Peter Dubovský -- The poetry of rock, rain, and remembrance in the Song of Moses / Kevin Chau --

Part II Literary Memory that Preserves and Passes on Selected Events or Details of the Past -- Self-referential Phrases in Deuteronomy: a Reassessment Based on Recent Studies Concerning Scribal Performance and Memory / Raymond F. Person, Jr. -- The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of Samuel / Rachelle Gilmour -- The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan / Ronald Hendel -- Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text / Wolfgang Zwickel -- Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the Epigraphic Record / Roberto Jürgensen -- Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean / Aubrey E. Buster -- 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 / Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò --

Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io's Journey: The Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound / Yoshinori Sani -- Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman Republic / Jörg Rüpke.

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