Urim and Thummin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. List of Contributors xv
6. Introduction 1
7. I: The Old Testament and Cultural Memory
8. Old Testament as the Art of Remembering: Landscape as Paideia 13
9. ‘His Place Does not Recognize Him’ (Job 7:10): Reflections of Non-Inscribed Memory in the Book of Job 31
10. Cultural Memory and the Invention of Biblical Israel 53
11. The Copenhagen School and Cultural Memory 81
12. Extending the Borders of Cultural Memory Research? 95
13. II: Old Testament and Forgetting
14. The Study of Forgetting and the Forgotten in Ancient Israelite Discourse/s: Observations and Test Cases 139
15. Cultural Amnesia 159
16. III: Methodological and Terminological Issues
17. Social and Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis: The Quest for an Adequate Application 175
18. Jane Addams, the Devil Baby of Chicago and the (Classical) Sociology of Gendered Memory in Ancient Biblical Social Worlds 201
19. IV: Cultural Memory Perspectives Applied on the Old Testament
20. Yahweh’s Wars in the Pentateuch and their Function for the Cultural Memory of Ancient Israel 229
21. The Temple as a Symbol of Power in Inner-biblical and Postbiblical Exegesis 245
22. Urim and Thummin 267
23. Cultural Memory and Family Religion 291
24. The Torah as Canon of Masterpieces: Remembering in Archives 309
25. V: Cultural Memory Perspectives Applied Beyond the Old Testament
26. Was the Maccabean Revolt the ‘First Religiously Motivated War in History’ (J. Assmann)? Exegetical, Historical and Hermeneutical Contributions to a Recent Discussion 327
27. Memories of the Veil: The Covenantal Contrasts in Christian- Jewish Encounter 343
28. Index of Authors 367
29. Index of References 375