Collective Memory and Collective Identity

Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-071508-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 947 g

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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."

Zielgruppe

Scholars, students, and institutes of the Hebrew Bible and ancien

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unsok Ro, Johannes

Edelman, Diana

Edelman, Diana Vikander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

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