Collective memory and collective identity: deuteronomy and the deuteronomistic history in their context
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Memory and History: An Introduction -- 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 -- Using the Past to Mold New Attitudes in the Present an...
| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Memory and History: An Introduction -- 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 -- 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) -- Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other -- Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy -- The Efficacy of Moses’s Prophecies and the Scope of Deuteronomistic Historiography -- Remembering Exodus: A Development of Formulas Containing the Verbs עלה and יצא in the Deuteronomistic History -- The Poetry of Rock, Rain, and Remembrance in the Song of Moses -- 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 -- The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of Samuel -- The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan -- Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text -- Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the Epigraphic Record -- Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean -- 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 -- Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io’s Journey: The Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound -- Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman Republic -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Citations This volume addresses the topics of collective memory and collective identity in relation to Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History. The articles gathered here portray the fascinating relationship between memory and identity, and between history within Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic historiography as well as its proximate context. They present fresh and illuminating perspectives that, it is hoped, will inspire future research |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 3110715104 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110715101 |