Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination

by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman

Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international scholars. The presumed social settings when most of the books comprising the TANAK had come into existence and were being read together...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199664161
• ISBN13: 9780199664160
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"