Memory - Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73752-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022 connects past, present, and future. This conference volume demonstrates the diversity of ‘memory’ in the Jewish and Christian traditions. ‘Memory’ turns out to be a key to investigating and better understanding many aspects of Judaism and Christianity, including their mutual relationship. In these traditions, memory is not simply about recalling events, but about preserving identity, culture, and divine teachings. The act of remembering is central to how communities pass down their religious beliefs, laws, and moral frameworks across generations. It also plays a role in communal cohesion, ensuring that the experiences of the fathers and their wisdom would not get lost, but rather actively re-lived and celebrated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ackerman, Ari

ten Hoopen, Robin B.

Teugels, Lieve M.

van Wieringen, Archibald L.H.M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

1 Memory – a Basic Key to Understanding Times and Traditions

An Introduction Ari Ackerman, Robin ten Hoopen, Lieve Teugels and Archibald van Wieringen

2 Are Tomb Monuments a Form of Memory in Biblical Texts? Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen and Bart J. Koet

3 Remembering the Exodus

Mitsrayim as “Land of Anxiety” Lieve Teugels and Robin ten Hoopen

4 Reading between the Lines

Lessons from History in Targum Isaiah Alberdina Houtman 5 The Differences between Josephus’ Temple Descriptions in War and Antiquities
A Literary-Spatial Analysis Eyal Regev

6 Aaron Remembered

On the Development of the Characterisation of Aaron the Priest as a Lover of Peace in Rabbinic Literature Adiel Kadari

7 “What I Saw, I Forgot What I Heard …”

Memory, Forgetfulness, and Recollection in Early Rabbinic Narrative Reuven Kiperwasser

8 To Remember the Forgotten

Loss of Knowledge in Tannaitic Literature Tamar Kadari

9 Some Ideas on Remembering and Forgetting in Chassidism Leon Mock z”l

10 Memory and the Other in Levinas’ Commentary on the Talmud Marcel Poorthuis

11 Cultural Memory in Hebrew Children’s Literature

A Dialectic between Original Creation and Adaptation Vered Tohar

12 From the Absent God to the Absent Text

Agnon and the Writing of Catastrophe Yaniv Hagbi

13 Forgetful Remembrance in the Dutch Theological Debate on Colonial Slavery

Preliminary Results of a Quantitative Approach Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk

14 Being Is Remembering

On Locke’s Theory of Consciousness, Mnemohistory, and the Game Remember Me Frank G. Bosman

15 Jewishness and Israeliness in the Development of Israel’s Sacred Landscape Doron Bar

16 Imagining a Prehistoric Worldview Gert van Klinken

Index of References

Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Ari Ackerman, Ph.D. (2001), is the president of Schechter Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in Jewish philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Hebrew University and has published and edited multiple books and articles on various aspects of medieval and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation (Brill, 2022).

Robin B. ten Hoopen, Ph.D. (2025), is a minister of the Protestant Church in Bergambacht, the Netherlands, and an associate researcher at the Protestant Theological University Utrecht. His specializations include notions of immortality in the ANE and HB, Genesis 1–11, and the study of the HB in the ANE. He has published articles in (a.o.) the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, and Ugarit Forschungen.

Lieve M. Teugels, Ph.D. (1994) is a professor of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on rabbinic literature, mainly midrash. She often deals with literature and ideas at the intersection of Judaism and Christianity, or “the partings of the ways” in the first centuries CE.

Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Teaching and Tradition: On their Dynamic Interaction (Brill, 2023) and Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts (Brill, 2023) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video Games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).