Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew BibleOxford University Press, 03/02/2005 - 216 من الصفحات According to an old tradition preserved in the Palestinian Targums, the Hebrew Bible is "the Book of Memories." The sacred past recalled in the Bible serves as a model and wellspring for the present. The remembered past, says Ronald Hendel, is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. It is a mixture of history, collective memory, folklore, and literary brilliance, and is often colored by political and religious interests. In Israel's formative years, these memories circulated orally in the context of family and tribe. Over time they came to be crystallized in various written texts. The Hebrew Bible is a vast compendium of writings, spanning a thousand-year period from roughly the twelfth to the second century BCE, and representing perhaps a small slice of the writings of that period. The texts are often overwritten by later texts, creating a complex pastiche of text, reinterpretation, and commentary. The religion and culture of ancient Israel are expressed by these texts, and in no small part also created by them, as they formulate new or altered conceptions of the sacred past. Remembering Abraham explores the interplay of culture, history, and memory in the Hebrew Bible. Hendel examines the Hebrew Bible's portrayal of Israel and its history, and correlates the biblical past with our own sense of the past. He addresses the ways that culture, memory, and history interweave in the self-fashioning of Israel's identity, and in the biblical portrayals of the patriarchs, the Exodus, and King Solomon. A concluding chapter explores the broad horizons of the biblical sense of the past. This accessibly written book represents the mature thought of one of our leading scholars of the Hebrew Bible. |
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... story. To begin this tale of history and biblical narrative—of the past and Israel's self-fashioning—Israel was a people of the ancient Near East, but a self-consciously unique member of that cultural family. Israel differentiated ...
... story. To begin this tale of history and biblical narrative—of the past and Israel's self-fashioning—Israel was a people of the ancient Near East, but a self-consciously unique member of that cultural family. Israel differentiated ...
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... story: From Aram has Balak summoned me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. “Come, curse Jacob for me, come, condemn Israel!” But how can I curse what God has not cursed, how can I condemn what Yahweh has not condemned? For I ...
... story: From Aram has Balak summoned me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. “Come, curse Jacob for me, come, condemn Israel!” But how can I curse what God has not cursed, how can I condemn what Yahweh has not condemned? For I ...
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... story, Balaam is derided as more stupid than his donkey, since even the donkey can see the angel of God (Num 22:22–35).9 The foreign seer who sees truly has been transformed into an agent of sin and a blindly blundering fool. These are ...
... story, Balaam is derided as more stupid than his donkey, since even the donkey can see the angel of God (Num 22:22–35).9 The foreign seer who sees truly has been transformed into an agent of sin and a blindly blundering fool. These are ...
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... story is ambiguous on this issue, though she is a prostitute by profession.) Tamar's seduction of Judah and Ruth's seduction of Boaz result in the restoration of an Israelite lineage that would otherwise have been lost—the lineage that ...
... story is ambiguous on this issue, though she is a prostitute by profession.) Tamar's seduction of Judah and Ruth's seduction of Boaz result in the restoration of an Israelite lineage that would otherwise have been lost—the lineage that ...
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... stories of the Exodus-Sinai-Wanderings period, related in the books of Exodus through Deuteronomy. These stories can be regarded not only as a national biography,14 but also as a historical engine for the construction of cultural ...
... stories of the Exodus-Sinai-Wanderings period, related in the books of Exodus through Deuteronomy. These stories can be regarded not only as a national biography,14 but also as a historical engine for the construction of cultural ...
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2 Remembering Abraham | 31 |
3 Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives | 45 |
4 The Exodus in Biblical Memory | 57 |
Solomon History and Biblical Representation | 75 |
6 The Biblical Sense of the Past | 95 |
Linguistic Notes on the Age of Biblical Literature | 109 |
Abbreviations | 119 |
Notes | 123 |
Bibliography | 165 |
Index of Biblical Citations | 189 |
General Index | 195 |
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