Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-054638-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Hebrew, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1260 g

Reihe: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft : [...], Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and several new relevant works are here collected together providing a very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this area.
The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting ‘national’ histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as ‘counterfactual’ and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of generative grammars governing systemic preferences and dis-preferences for particular memories.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Persian Period Israel, Hebrew Bible/Old

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ben Zvi, Ehud

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Biblische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Über Autor(innen)

Ehud Ben Zvi, Universität Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Kanada.

Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.