Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistc History in Their Context
- Berlin Walter De Gruyter GmbH 2021
- 466p
- Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft - 534 .
1. The Use of Memory to Reinforce Identity Boundaries Looking back in order to move Forward : The Use of Deuteronomy 1: 22-33 in Joshua 2............21 Using the Past to Mold New Attitudes in the Present and Future : Examples from the Books of Deuteronomy, Judges ............47 Construction of Self-Identity by Marginalizing an Imaged other .........85 Amalek, Saul and David : The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy ......105 The Efficacy of Moses`s Prophecies and the Scope of Deuteronomistic Historiography .......121 Remembering Exodus : A Development of Formulas Containing the Verb ---- and ---- in the Deuteronomistic History ...........149 The Poetry of Rock, Rain, and Remembrance in the Song of Moses ............177 2. Literary Memory that Preserves and Passes on Selected Events or Details of the Past.......217 3. Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean ......325