Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110715088)

"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."

Author: Johannes Unsok Ro
ISBN-10: 3110715082
ISBN-13: 9783110715088
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2021
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d