Performing Memory in Biblical Narrative and Beyond
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This compilation of articles is the result of a collective research project with participants from the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Tel Aviv University and Haifa University (Israel), Poznan University (Poland), Bowdoin College and Brite Divinity School (USA).
Memory —’authentic’, manufactured, imagined, innocent or deliberate —becomes remembrance through its performance, that is, through being narrated orally or in writing. And when it is narrated, memory becomes a shaper of identities and a social agent, a tool for shaping a community’s present and future as much as, if not more so, than a near-simplistic recording of past history and a sense of belonging.
In this volume, various aspects of narrated ‘memories’ in the Bible and beyond it are examined for their literary and sociological charge within biblical literature as well as in its cultural afterlives —Jewish, Christian and ‘secular’. From inner-biblical memory shaping claims to contemporaneous retellings, the shifts of tradition to story are explored for ways, means and aims that, authorially intentional or otherwise, become influential in adapting the Bible for the postmodern scene and adapting the postmodern scene to the Bible.
This compilation of articles is the result of a collective research project with participants from the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Tel Aviv University and Haifa University (Israel), Poznan University (Poland), Bowdoin College and Brite Divinity School (USA).
This is Volume 3 in the subseries Amsterdam Studies in the Bible and Religion.
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| table of contents | Athalya Brenner and Burke O. Long, Introduction: Memory, Telling and the Art of (Self-)Definition I. BIBLICAL NARRATIVES, MEMORY, PERFORMANCE Yairah Amit, Araunah’s Threshing-floor: A Lesson in Shaping Historical Memory Toni Craven, Remembering the Past in the Psalms Philip R. Davies, Story, Memory, Identity: Benjamin Frank H. Polak, Negotiations, Social Drama and Voices of Memory in Some Samuel Tales Meira Polliack, Joseph’s Trauma: Memory and Resolution Teresa Stanek, Exodus–Covenant: Historical Events as Myth about Origins Talia Sutskover, Lexical Fields and Coherence in the Jacob Narrative II. POST-BIBLICAL JEWISH-TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVES Avraham Melamed, ‘Of making many books there is no end’ (Qoheleth 12.12): The History of Commentary from Prohibition to Legitimation Shulamit Valler, The Eretz Israel Narrative in the Babylonian Talmud III. REMEMBRANCE OF MEMORIES Jonneke Bekkenkamp, What Matters in Life: Memory and Narrative in Simon and Wit Athalya Brenner, Rizpah [Re]membered: 2 Samuel 1–14 and Beyond Ingeborg Löwisch, Genealogies, Gender, and the Politics of Memory: 1 Chronicles 1–9 and the Documentary Film ‘Mein Leben Teil 2’ Burke O. Long, The Holy Land and its Bible in Orlando Caroline Vander Stichele, Cutting Edges and Loose Ends, Or: How to Re-Member John the Baptist Frank H. Polak, Afterword: Perspectives in Retrospect |
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