Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible

by Ronald Hendel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195177967
• ISBN13: 9780195177961
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"