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This volume brings together fourteen essays by Israeli, European
and American scholars honouring the distinct contribution of Yairah
Amit to the literary study of the Hebrew Bible and to her public
role, fostering especially the place of the Hebrew Bible in Israeli
education. In biblical studies she has made significant
contributions to the study of redactional and editorial activity,
which she has always viewed from a rhetorical and literary point of
view. These aspects were uniquely developed in her work on the
books of Judges and Chronicles, in which literary considerations
always lead to the recognition of the ideology behind the
redactor's work. Another key theme of hers has been overt and
hidden polemics expressed or suggested by the narrative text. The
studies assembled in the present volume deal with the many aspects
of Amit's work, from the biblical and post-biblical down to the
mediaeval and the modern period. Central fields are the art of the
redactor and inner-biblical polemics (Diana Edelman, Cynthia
Edenburg, Nadav Na'aman, Meira Polliack, Dalit Rom-Shiloni),
literary scrutiny (Ed Greenstein, Lillian Klein Abensohn, Frank
Polak), ideology in social and religious contexts (Ehud Ben Zvi,
Israel Knohl), and feminist and cultural studies in a wider sense
(Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, Yael Feldman, Shulamit Valler).
Memory-'authentic', manufactured, imagined, innocent or
deliberate-becomes remembrance through its performance, that is,
through being narrated orally or in writing. And when it is
narrated, memory becomes a shaper of identities and a social agent,
a tool for shaping a community's present and future as much as, if
not more so, than a near-simplistic recording of past history and a
sense of belonging. In this volume, various aspects of narrated
'memories' in the Bible and beyond it are examined for their
literary and sociological charge within biblical literature as well
as in its cultural afterlives-Jewish, Christian and 'secular'. From
inner-biblical memory shaping claims to contemporaneous retellings,
the shifts of tradition to story are explored for ways, means and
aims that, authorially intentional or otherwise, become influential
in adapting the Bible for the postmodern scene and adapting the
postmodern scene to the Bible. This compilation of articles is the
result of a collective research project with participants from the
University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University (The Netherlands),
Tel Aviv University and Haifa University (Israel), Poznan
University (Poland), Bowdoin College and Brite Divinity School
(USA). This is Volume 3 in the subseries Amsterdam Studies in the
Bible and Religion.
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