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Remembering the Story of Israel

by Illinois) Aubrey E. Buster (wheaton College

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of biblical history

Uncovers communal memory in ancient Israel's texts

You will gain new insights into Israel's past events

This book explores how memory shapes Israel's historical narrative.

In this book, Aubrey Buster demonstrates how methods adapted from cultural and social memory studies and the new formalism can illuminate the communal function of biblical and extra-biblical historical summaries in Second Temple Judaism. Refining models drawn from memory studies, she applies them to ancient texts and demonstrates the development of Judah's speech about their past across the Second Temple period. Buster's wide-ranging study demonstrates how and where the historical summary functions in the book of Psalms, Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Chronicles, as well as the Qumran Psalms Scrolls, Words of the Luminaries, Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus, and Pseudo-Daniel. She shows how the historical summary proves to be a generative, replicable, and ultimately productive form of memory. Crossing the boundaries of genre categories and time periods, liturgical performances, and literary works, historical summaries crafted a highly selective but broadly useful mode of commemoration of key events from Israel's past.
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  • Title

    Remembering the Story of Israel

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    May 2022

  • Weight

    713g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781009150682

  • ISBN-10

    1009150685

  • Eden Code

    5631044