Memories of Asaph: Mnemohistory and the Psalms of Asaph

by Karl N Jacobson and Karl N. Jacobson

Although the Psalms of Asaph (Pss. 50, 7383) contain a concentration of historical referents unparalleled in the Psalter, they have rarely attracted sustained historical interest. Karl N. Jacobson identifies these psalms as containing cultic historiography, historical narratives written for recitation in worship, and explores them through mnemohistory, attending to how the past is remembered and to the rhetorical function of recitation in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506423469
• ISBN13: 9781506423463
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"