Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Table of Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. On Social Memory and Identity Formation in Late Persian Yehud: A Historian’s Viewpoint with a Focus on Prophetic Literature, Chronicles and the Deuteronomistic Historical Collection 28
6. Remembering the Prophets through the Reading and Rereading of a Collection of Prophetic Books in Yehud: Methodological Considerations and Explorations 80
7. Prophetic Memories in the Deuteronomistic Historical and the Prophetic Collections of Books 109
8. The Yehudite Collection of Prophetic Books and Imperial Contexts: Some Observations 134
9. The Memory of Abraham in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah 162
10. Exploring the Memory of Moses ‘The Prophet’ in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah 199
11. Squaring Circles and The Social Benefits of Squaring Them: Joshua as a Case Study for Constraints, Preferences, Balances and Flexibility within the Complex Memory System of the Literati of the late Persian/early Hellenistic Period 232
12. Isaiah, a Memorable Prophet: Why was Isaiah so Memorable in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Periods? Some Observations 253
13. Remembering Hosea: The Prophet Hosea as a Site of Memory in Persian Period Yehud 274
14. Reading the Book of Hosea, Remembering Hosea and Thinking of Exile in Yehud 294
15. Readers, Social Memory, Deuteronomistic Language and Jeremiah: The Roles of Deuteronomistic Language in Shaping Memories of Jeremiah among Late Persian/early Hellenistic Readers of the Book of Jeremiah 304
16. Chronicles and Samuel–Kings: Two Interacting Aspects of one Memory System in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period 317
17. Shaping and Remembering an Arch-Villain in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period: The Case of Ahaz in Chronicles and its Implications 332
18. Reshaping the Memory of Zedekiah and His Period in Chronicles 342
19. Reading Chronicles and Reshaping the Memory of Manasseh 367
20. Toward a Sense of Balance: Remembering the Catastrophe of Monarchic Judah/(Ideological) Israel and Exile through Reading Chronicles in Late Yehud 387
21. Chronicles and Its Reshaping of Memories of Monarchic Period Prophets: Some Observations 407
22. Contributions of the Genealogies in Chronicles to the Shaping of the Memory of the Monarchic Period: The Case of Some Simeonites’s Vignettes 428
23. A Balancing Act: Settling and Unsettling Issues Concerning Past Divine Promises in Historiographical Texts Shaping Social Memory in the Late Persian Period 440
24. A Contribution to the Intellectual History of Yehud: The Story of Micaiah and Its Function within the Discourse of Persian-Period Literati 459
25. When Yhwh Tests People: General Considerations and Particular Observations Regarding the Books of Chronicles and Job 472
26. Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods 482
27. Remembering Pre-Israelite Jerusalem in Late Persian Yehud: Mnemonic Preferences, Memories and Social Imagination 504
28. Re-Negotiating a Putative Utopia and the Stories of the Rejection of Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah 527
29. The “Successful, Wise, Worthy Wife” of Proverbs 31:10–31 as a Source for Reconstructing Aspects of Thought and Economy in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period 546
30. Monogynistic and Monogamous Tendencies, Memories and Imagination in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud 566
31. Othering, Selfing, ‘Boundarying’ and ‘Cross-Boundarying’ as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some Observations 580
32. Total Exile, Empty Land and the General Intellectual Discourse in Yehud 599
33. The Voice and Role of a Counterfactual Memory in the Construction of Exile and Return: Considering Jeremiah 40:7–12 612
34. Potential Intersections Between Research Frames Informed by Social-Memory and ‘Bourdieusian’ Approaches/Concepts: The Study of Socio-Historical Features of the Literati of the early Second Temple Period 631
35. Social Sciences Models and Mnemonic/Imagined Worlds: Exploring Their Interrelations in Ancient Israel 655
36. Bibliography 674
37. Index of Authors 722
38. Index of References to Ancient Sources 730