عنوان

Remembering biblical figures in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods

978-0-19-966416-0

IR

556970

انگلیسی

IR

Remembering biblical figures in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods

[Book]

: social memory and imagination

/ edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi

Oxford

: Oxford University Press

, 2013

xxiv, 516 p.

; 24 cm

انگليسي

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Part I. Remembering ancestors and founders. The memory of Abraham in late Persian.- Remembering Jacob in the late Persian early Hellenistic era.- Moses, the royal lawgiver.- Exploring the memory of Aaron in late Persian.- Remembering Joshua.- Part II. Remembering kings (Israelite and foreigners). Saul, hero and villain.- David in Israelite social memory.- Solomon as cultural memory/ Niels Peter Lemche.- Between realpolitiker and hero of faith: memories of Hezekiah in biblical traditions and beyond.- The memory of Sennacherib in late Persian Yehud.- Rehabilitating Manasseh: remembering King Manasseh in the Persian and Hellenistic periods.- Remembering Josiah.- Nebuchadnezzar: history, memory, and myth-making in the Persian period.- New you see him, now you don't: Nabonidus in Jewish memory.- Remembering Cyrus the Persian: exploring monarchy and freedom in classical Greece.- Part III. Remembering female characters. Tamar, from victim to mother of a dynasty.- Ruth: the art of memorizing past enemies, ambiguously.- Why remember Jezebel?.- Part IV. Remembering prophets. Exploring the memory of Moses 'the prophet' in late Persian.- Isaiah, a memorable prophet: why was Isaiah so memorable in the late Persian.- Remembering Jeremiah in the Persian period.- The memory of Ezekiel in postmonarchic Yehud.- Part V. Additional and complementary methodological considerations. Reflections on a cognitive theory of culture and a theory of formalized language for late biblical studies

Bible. Old Testament -- Biography

Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish

Collective memory -- Judaea (Region)

Collective memory -- Yehud (Persian province)

Edelman

Ben Zvi

, Diana Vikander

, Ehud

, 1954-

, 1951-

Iran

Central Library Of Tehran University

Old cataloging

BL

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