Index of Modern Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. List of Abbreviations XI
4. Memory and History: An Introduction 1
5. Part I The Use of Memory to Reinforce Identity Boundaries
6. Looking Back in Order to Move Forward: The Use of Deuteronomy 1:22–33 in Joshua 2 21
7. 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) 47
8. Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other 85
9. Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy 105
10. The Efficacy of Moses’s Prophecies and the Scope of Deuteronomistic Historiography 121
11. Remembering Exodus: A Development of Formulas Containing the Verbs עלה and יצא in the Deuteronomistic History 149
12. The Poetry of Rock, Rain, and Remembrance in the Song of Moses 177
13. Part II Literary Memory that Preserves and Passes on Selected Events or Details of the Past
14. Self-Referential Phrases in Deuteronomy: A Reassessment Based on Recent Studies Concerning Scribal Performance and Memory 217
15. The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of Samuel 243
16. The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan 263
17. Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text 289
18. Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the Epigraphic Record 305
19. Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
20. Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean 325
21. 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 353
22. Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io’s Journey: The Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound 377
23. Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman Republic 395
24. Index of Subjects 427
25. Index of Modern Authors 435
26. Index of Ancient Citations 443