Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis

✍ Scribed by Pernille Carstens

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recollection of what has been learned and retained, normally treated as "the cultural heritage." The purpose of this book, the first product of the research program Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis, is to study how memory is inscribed and embodied in biblical culture and its surrounding area. The essays in this volume seek to open new investigations into cultural memory in biblical and cognate studies, and to include a plethora of methods and perspectives such as the relationship between cultural memory approach and post-colonialism, globalism and epistemology.

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
I: The Old Testament and Cultural Memory
Old Testament as the Art of Remembering: Landscape as Paideia
‘His Place Does not Recognize Him’ (Job 7:10): Reflections of Non-Inscribed Memory in the Book of Job
Cultural Memory and the Invention of Biblical Israel
The Copenhagen School and Cultural Memory
Extending the Borders of Cultural Memory Research?
II: Old Testament and Forgetting
The Study of Forgetting and the Forgotten in Ancient Israelite Discourse/s: Observations and Test Cases
Cultural Amnesia
III: Methodological and Terminological Issues
Social and Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis: The Quest for an Adequate Application
Jane Addams, the Devil Baby of Chicago and the (Classical) Sociology of Gendered Memory in Ancient Biblical Social Worlds
IV: Cultural Memory Perspectives Applied on the Old Testament
Yahweh’s Wars in the Pentateuch and their Function for the Cultural Memory of Ancient Israel
The Temple as a Symbol of Power in Inner-biblical and Postbiblical Exegesis
Urim and Thummin
Cultural Memory and Family Religion
The Torah as Canon of Masterpieces: Remembering in Archives
V: Cultural Memory Perspectives Applied Beyond the Old Testament
Was the Maccabean Revolt the ‘First Religiously Motivated War in History’ (J. Assmann)? Exegetical, Historical and Hermeneutical Contributions to a Recent Discussion
Memories of the Veil: The Covenantal Contrasts in Christian- Jewish Encounter
Index of Authors
Index of References