Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

Ehud Ben Zvi

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110547146
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt.

Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• On Social Memory and Identity Formation in Late Persian Yehud: A Historian’s Viewpoint with a Focus on Prophetic Literature, Chronicles and the Deuteronomistic Historical Collection
• Remembering the Prophets through the Reading and Rereading of a Collection of Prophetic Books in Yehud: Methodological Considerations and Explorations
• Prophetic Memories in the Deuteronomistic Historical and the Prophetic Collections of Books
• The Yehudite Collection of Prophetic Books and Imperial Contexts: Some Observations
• The Memory of Abraham in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
• Exploring the Memory of Moses ‘The Prophet’ in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
• Squaring Circles and The Social Benefits of Squaring Them: Joshua as a Case Study for Constraints, Preferences, Balances and Flexibility within the Complex Memory System of the Literati of the late Persian/early Hellenistic Period
• Isaiah, a Memorable Prophet: Why was Isaiah so Memorable in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Periods? Some Observations
• Remembering Hosea: The Prophet Hosea as a Site of Memory in Persian Period Yehud
• Reading the Book of Hosea, Remembering Hosea and Thinking of Exile in Yehud
• Readers, Social Memory, Deuteronomistic Language and Jeremiah: The Roles of Deuteronomistic Language in Shaping Memories of Jeremiah among Late Persian/early Hellenistic Readers of the Book of Jeremiah
• Chronicles and Samuel–Kings: Two Interacting Aspects of one Memory System in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period
• Shaping and Remembering an Arch-Villain in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period: The Case of Ahaz in Chronicles and its Implications
• Reshaping the Memory of Zedekiah and His Period in Chronicles
• Reading Chronicles and Reshaping the Memory of Manasseh
• Toward a Sense of Balance: Remembering the Catastrophe of Monarchic Judah/(Ideological) Israel and Exile through Reading Chronicles in Late Yehud
• Chronicles and Its Reshaping of Memories of Monarchic Period Prophets: Some Observations
• Contributions of the Genealogies in Chronicles to the Shaping of the Memory of the Monarchic Period: The Case of Some Simeonites’s Vignettes
• A Balancing Act: Settling and Unsettling Issues Concerning Past Divine Promises in Historiographical Texts Shaping Social Memory in the Late Persian Period
• A Contribution to the Intellectual History of Yehud: The Story of Micaiah and Its Function within the Discourse of Persian-Period Literati
• When Yhwh Tests People: General Considerations and Particular Observations Regarding the Books of Chronicles and Job
• Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
• Remembering Pre-Israelite Jerusalem in Late Persian Yehud: Mnemonic Preferences, Memories and Social Imagination
• Re-Negotiating a Putative Utopia and the Stories of the Rejection of Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah
• The “Successful, Wise, Worthy Wife” of Proverbs 31:10–31 as a Source for Reconstructing Aspects of Thought and Economy in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period
• Monogynistic and Monogamous Tendencies, Memories and Imagination in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud
• Othering, Selfing, ‘Boundarying’ and ‘Cross-Boundarying’ as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some Observations
• Total Exile, Empty Land and the General Intellectual Discourse in Yehud
• The Voice and Role of a Counterfactual Memory in the Construction of Exile and Return: Considering Jeremiah 40:7–12
• Potential Intersections Between Research Frames Informed by Social-Memory and ‘Bourdieusian’ Approaches/Concepts: The Study of Socio-Historical Features of the Literati of the early Second Temple Period
• Social Sciences Models and Mnemonic/Imagined Worlds: Exploring Their Interrelations in Ancient Israel
• Bibliography
• Index of Authors
• Index of References to Ancient Sources