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Memory and Covenant

The Role of Israel's and God's Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants [Paperback]

by Barat Ellman

    • Author

      Barat Ellman

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Fortress Press,U.S.

    • Published

      October 2013

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    Memory and Covenant applies new insights into the meaning and function of social memory to analyze the two major "religions" of the Pentateuch (D and P) and their relationship to one another. Both these traditions regard memory as a vital element of religious practice and as the principal instrument of covenant fidelity - but in very different ways. Ellman shows that for the deuteronomic tradition, memory is an epistemological and pedagogical means for keeping Israel faithful to its God and God's commandments, even when Israelites are far from the temple and its worship. The pre-exilic priestly tradition, however, understands that the covenant depends on God's memory, which must be aroused by the sensory stimuli of the temple cult. The exilic priestly tradition (the literature of the Holiness school) incorporates the theme of transcendence put forth by Deuteronomy and reconceives of the cult in symbolic terms rather than as literally an appeal to God's memory.

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    • Author

      Barat Ellman

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Fortress Press,U.S.

    • Published

      October 2013

    • Weight

      332g

    • Page Count

      192

    • Dimensions

      156 x 228 x 14 mm

    • ISBN

      9781451465617

    • ISBN-10

      1451465610

    • Eden Code

      4247235

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    • Author/Creator: Barat Ellman

    • ISBN: 9781451465617

    • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.

    • Release Date: October 2013

    • Weight: 332g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 14 mm

    • Eden Code: 4247235


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