TY - BOOK AU - Edelman,Diana Vikander AU - Ben Zvi,Ehud TI - Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination SN - 9780199664160 (hbk.) AV - BS1186 .R45 2013 U1 - B66.1 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Oxford University Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Biography KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish KW - Collective memory KW - Judaea (Region) KW - Yehud (Persian province) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part I; Remembering ancestors and founders; The memory of Abraham in late Persian/early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah; Ehud Ben Zvi --; Remembering Jacob in the late Persian early Hellenistic era; Raik Heckl --; Moses, the royal lawgiver; Thomas C. Römer --; Exploring the memory of Aaron in late Persian/early Hellenistic period Yehud; Philippe Guillaume --; Remembering Joshua; E. Axel Knauf --; Part II; Remembering kings (Israelite and foreigners); Saul, hero and villain; Philip R. Davies --; David in Israelite social memory; Diana V. Edelman --; Solomon as cultural memory; Niels Peter Lemche --; Between realpolitiker and hero of faith: memories of Hezekiah in biblical traditions and beyond; Bob Becking --; The memory of Sennacherib in late Persian Yehud; Russell Hobson --; Rehabilitating Manasseh: remembering King Manasseh in the Persian and Hellenistic periods; Lowell K. Handy --; Remembering Josiah; Joseph Blenkinsopp --; Nebuchadnezzar: history, memory, and myth-making in the Persian period; Jonathan Stökl --; New you see him, now you don't: Nabonidus in Jewish memory; Carol A. Newsom --; Remembering Cyrus the Persian: exploring monarchy and freedom in classical Greece; Lynette Mitchell --; Part III; Remembering female characters; Tamar, from victim to mother of a dynasty; Yairah Amit --; Ruth: the art of memorizing past enemies, ambiguously; Athalya Brenner --; Why remember Jezebel?; Carey Walsh --; Part IV; Remembering prophets; Exploring the memory of Moses 'the prophet' in late Persian/early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah; Ehud Ben Zvi --; Isaiah, a memorable prophet: why was Isaiah so memorable in the late Persian/early Hellenistic periods? : some observations; Ehud Ben Zvi --; Remembering Jeremiah in the Persian period; Mark Leuchter --; The memory of Ezekiel in postmonarchic Yehud; Christophe Nihan --; Part V; Additional and complementary methodological considerations; Reflections on a cognitive theory of culture and a theory of formalized language for late biblical studies; David H. Aaron ER -