Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context

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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

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Volume 534 | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

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“Collective memory” has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40−50 years in particular. It and "collective identity" have become important issues within Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies; the role collective memory plays in shaping collective identity links the two organically. Research to date on memory within biblical studies broadly falls under four approaches: 1) lexical studies; 2) discussions of biblical historiography in which memory is considered a contributing element; 3) topical explorations for which memory is an organizing concept; and 4) memory and transmission studies.
The sixteen contributors to this volume provide detailed investigations of the contours of collective memory and collective identity that have crystallized in Martin Noth's "Deuteronomistic History" (Deut-2 Kgs). Together, they yield diverse profiles of collective memory and collective identity that draw comparatively on biblical, ancient Near eastern, and classical Greek material, employing one of more of the four common approaches. This is the first volume devoted to applying memory studies to the "Deuteronomistic History."

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Johannes Unsok Ro, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, Diana Edelman, University of Oslo, Norway.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Memory and History: An Introduction Johannes Unsok Ro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other Cynthia Edenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy Yigal Levin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
The Efficacy of Moses’s Prophecies and the Scope of Deuteronomistic Historiography Dominik Markl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Remembering Exodus: A Development of Formulas Containing the Verbs עלה and יצא in the Deuteronomistic History Peter Dubovský Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
The Poetry of Rock, Rain, and Remembrance in the Song of Moses Kevin Chau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of Samuel Rachelle Gilmour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan Ronald Hendel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text Wolfgang Zwickel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the Epigraphic Record Roberto Jürgensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean Aubrey E. Buster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io’s Journey: The Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound Yoshinori Sano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman Republic Jörg Rüpke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Index of Ancient Citations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443

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eBook published on:

March 8, 2021

eBook ISBN:

9783110715101

Hardcover published on:

March 8, 2021

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110715088

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

14

Main content:

466

Illustrations:

2

Coloured Illustrations:

8

Tables:

29

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110715101

eBook ISBN: 9783110715101

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110715088

Keywords for this book

Collective Memory; Collective Identity; Deuteronomy; Deuteronomistic History

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Scholars, students, and institutes of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism.

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