Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

Ehud Ben Zvi

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

Ehud Ben Zvi

Volume 509 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547146

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About this book

Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and several new relevant works are here collected together providing a very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this area.
The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting ‘national’ histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as ‘counterfactual’ and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of generative grammars governing systemic preferences and dis-preferences for particular memories.

Author / Editor information

Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Remembering the Prophets through the Reading and Rereading of a Collection of Prophetic Books in Yehud: Methodological Considerations and Explorations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Prophetic Memories in the Deuteronomistic Historical and the Prophetic Collections of Books Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The Yehudite Collection of Prophetic Books and Imperial Contexts: Some Observations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
The Memory of Abraham in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Exploring the Memory of Moses ‘The Prophet’ in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Isaiah, a Memorable Prophet: Why was Isaiah so Memorable in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Periods? Some Observations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Remembering Hosea: The Prophet Hosea as a Site of Memory in Persian Period Yehud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Reading the Book of Hosea, Remembering Hosea and Thinking of Exile in Yehud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Chronicles and Samuel–Kings: Two Interacting Aspects of one Memory System in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Shaping and Remembering an Arch-Villain in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period: The Case of Ahaz in Chronicles and its Implications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Reshaping the Memory of Zedekiah and His Period in Chronicles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
Reading Chronicles and Reshaping the Memory of Manasseh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Toward a Sense of Balance: Remembering the Catastrophe of Monarchic Judah/(Ideological) Israel and Exile through Reading Chronicles in Late Yehud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Chronicles and Its Reshaping of Memories of Monarchic Period Prophets: Some Observations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Contributions of the Genealogies in Chronicles to the Shaping of the Memory of the Monarchic Period: The Case of Some Simeonites’s Vignettes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	428
A Balancing Act: Settling and Unsettling Issues Concerning Past Divine Promises in Historiographical Texts Shaping Social Memory in the Late Persian Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
A Contribution to the Intellectual History of Yehud: The Story of Micaiah and Its Function within the Discourse of Persian-Period Literati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
When Yhwh Tests People: General Considerations and Particular Observations Regarding the Books of Chronicles and Job Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	472
Exploring Jerusalem as a Site of Memory in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	482
Remembering Pre-Israelite Jerusalem in Late Persian Yehud: Mnemonic Preferences, Memories and Social Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	504
Re-Negotiating a Putative Utopia and the Stories of the Rejection of Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	546
Monogynistic and Monogamous Tendencies, Memories and Imagination in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	566
Othering, Selfing, ‘Boundarying’ and ‘Cross-Boundarying’ as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some Observations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	580
Total Exile, Empty Land and the General Intellectual Discourse in Yehud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
The Voice and Role of a Counterfactual Memory in the Construction of Exile and Return: Considering Jeremiah 40:7–12 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	612
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	631
Social Sciences Models and Mnemonic/Imagined Worlds: Exploring Their Interrelations in Ancient Israel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	655
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	674
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	722
Index of References to Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	730

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Languages: English, Hebrew
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Persian Period Israel, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Social Memory and Ancient History, Judaism
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 760
Keywords: Early Second Temple; Social Memory; Hebrew Bible; Ancient Israel

eBook

Published: July 22, 2019
ISBN: 9783110547146

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Published: July 22, 2019
ISBN: 9783110546385

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110762921