The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham
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The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham

About this book

This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained. It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of memory, stories of Abraham served as guidelines for identity-formation and authoritative illustration of behaviour for the emerging Jewish communities.

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Yes, you can access The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham by Pernille Carstens, Niels Peter Lemche in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Criticism & Interpretation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  3. ABBREVIATIONS
  4. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. From Moses to Abraham: Jewish Identities in the Second Temple Period
  7. THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM IN LATE PERSIAN/EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD YEHUD
  8. REMEMBERING ABRAHAM IN PSEUDO-PHILO’S LIBER ANTIQUITATUM BIBLICARUM
  9. ABRAHAM IN THE PATRIARCHAL TEXTS OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND THE RECEPTION OF THIS TRADITION IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
  10. ABRAHAM AND THE ‘LAW AND THE PROPHETS’
  11. MEMORIES OF RETURN AND THE HISTORICITY OF THE ‘POST-EXILIC’ PERIOD
  12. INDEX OF AUTHORS
  13. Index of Biblical References