Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 534) (Issn)

“Collective memory” has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40-50 years in particular. It and "collective identity" have become important issues within Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies; the role collective memory plays in shaping collective identity links the two organically. Research to date on memory within biblical studies broadly falls under four approaches: 1) lexical studies; 2) discussions of biblical historiography in which memory is considered a contributing element; 3) topical explorations for which memory is an organizing concept; and 4) memory and transmission studies. The sixteen contributors to this volume provide detailed investigations of the contours of collective memory and collective identity that have crystallized in Martin Noth's "Deuteronomistic History" (Deut-2 Kgs). Together, they yield diverse profiles of collective memory and collective identity that draw comparatively on biblical, ancient Near eastern, and classical Greek material, employing one of more of the four common approaches. This is the first volume devoted to applying memory studies to the "Deuteronomistic History." Table of Contents 7 List of Abbreviations 11 Memory and History: An Introduction 15 Part I The Use of Memory to Reinforce Identity Boundaries 35 Looking Back in Order to Move Forward: The Use of Deuteronomy 1:22–33 in Joshua 2 35 Using the Past to Mold New Attitudes in the Present and Future: Examples from the Books of Deuteronomy, Judges (17–18), and 1 Samuel (28) 61 Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other 99 Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy 119 The Efficacy of Moses’s Prophecies and the Scope of Deuteronomistic Historiography 135 Remembering Exodus: A Development of Formulas Containing the Verbs עלה and יצא in the Deuteronomistic History 163 The Poetry of Rock, Rain, and Remembrance in the Song of Moses 191 Part II Literary Memory that Preserves and Passes on Selected Events or Details of the Past 231 Self-Referential Phrases in Deuteronomy: A Reassessment Based on Recent Studies Concerning Scribal Performance and Memory 231 The Monuments of Saul and Absalom in the Book of Samuel 257 The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan 277 Place Names as Markers for Dating a Text 303 Nomina nuda tenemus: Some Preliminary Remarks on Israelite and Judahite Anthroponymy between the Deuteronomistic History and the Epigraphic Record 319 Part III Comparative Literary Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean 339 Recited History and Social Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean 339 Why Was Biblical History Written during the Persian Period? Persuasive Aspects of Biblical Historiography and Its Political Context, or Historiography as an Anti-Mnemonic Literary Genre 367 Memory, Identity and Theodicy in Io’s Journey: The Representation of Io in Prometheus Bound 391 Memorizing the Past and Writing Religion in the Roman Republic 409 Index of Subjects 441 Index of Modern Authors 449 Index of Ancient Citations 457 "This volume addresses the topics of collective memory and collective identity in relation to Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History. The articles gathered here portray the fascinating relationship between memory and identity, and between history within Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic historiography as well as its proximate context. They present fresh and illuminating perspectives that, it is hoped, will inspire future research"-- Back cover "The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world."--Source inconnue