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Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods - Social Memory and Imagination (Hardcover, New)
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Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods - Social Memory and Imagination (Hardcover, New)
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Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to
approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range
of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters
representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and
prophets are explored by a group of international scholars. The
presumed social settings when most of the books comprising the
TANAK had come into existence and were being read together as an
emerging authoritative corpus are the late Persian and early
Hellenistic periods. It is in this context then that we can
profitably explore the symbolic values and networks of meanings
that biblical figures encoded for the religious community of Israel
in these eras, drawing on our limited knowledge of issues and life
in Yehud and Judean diasporic communities in these periods. This is
the first period when scholars can plausibly try to understand the
mnemonic effects of these texts, which were understood to encode
the collective experience members of the community, providing them
with a common identity by offering a sense of shared past while
defining aspirations for the future. The introduction and the
concluding essay focus on theoretical and methodological issues
that arise from analysing the Hebrew Bible in the framework of
memory studies. The individual character studies, as a group,
provide a kaleidoscopic view of the potentialities of using a
social memory approach in Biblical Studies, with the essay on Cyrus
written by a classicist, in order to provide an enriching
perspective on how one biblical figure was construed in Greek
social memory, for comparative purposes.
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